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- catalog abstract "Acclaimed historian Howard Zinn has been at the center of the most important historical moments of the last thirty years, during which he has been admired both as a writer and as an important political and moral voice. Author of the epic A People's History of the United States, Zinn here applies his historian's skills to the remarkable life he himself has led. In this inspiring, personal book - which works both as memoir and as popular history of an era - Zinn brings to life more than thirty years of American social history by telling the stories behind a politically engaged life. Zinn grew up in the immigrant slums of Brooklyn and flew as a bombardier in World War II, and he writes about the ways both experiences helped shape a radical impulse, an opposition to war, and a passion for history. He writes about his first teaching job at Spelman College, where he worked with young civil rights activists including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. He paints vivid, portraits of key moments and people throughout the South in the early 1960s, where he was a chronicler and active ally of the civil rights movement. He talks about his days as a leading antiwar protester, going to Vietnam with Daniel Berrigan and testifying in his friend Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers trial. He recalls imprisonments for civil disobedience, fights for open debate in universities, his love of teaching. Running throughout this personal book is Zinn's charming, generous, engaged voice, as well as a message about history. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train is Zinn's argument for hope - the stories of the people and events that inspire his faith in the possibility of historic change.".
- catalog contributor b5909535.
- catalog coverage "United States History 1945- Philosophy.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Acclaimed historian Howard Zinn has been at the center of the most important historical moments of the last thirty years, during which he has been admired both as a writer and as an important political and moral voice.".
- catalog description "Author of the epic A People's History of the United States, Zinn here applies his historian's skills to the remarkable life he himself has led. In this inspiring, personal book - which works both as memoir and as popular history of an era - Zinn brings to life more than thirty years of American social history by telling the stories behind a politically engaged life.".
- catalog description "He paints vivid, portraits of key moments and people throughout the South in the early 1960s, where he was a chronicler and active ally of the civil rights movement. He talks about his days as a leading antiwar protester, going to Vietnam with Daniel Berrigan and testifying in his friend Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers trial. He recalls imprisonments for civil disobedience, fights for open debate in universities, his love of teaching.".
- catalog description "Running throughout this personal book is Zinn's charming, generous, engaged voice, as well as a message about history. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train is Zinn's argument for hope - the stories of the people and events that inspire his faith in the possibility of historic change.".
- catalog description "Zinn grew up in the immigrant slums of Brooklyn and flew as a bombardier in World War II, and he writes about the ways both experiences helped shape a radical impulse, an opposition to war, and a passion for history. He writes about his first teaching job at Spelman College, where he worked with young civil rights activists including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman.".
- catalog extent "viii, 214 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "You can't be neutral on a moving train.".
- catalog identifier "0807070580".
- catalog isFormatOf "You can't be neutral on a moving train.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "You can't be neutral on a moving train.".
- catalog spatial "United States History 1945- Philosophy.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973/.07202 20".
- catalog subject "E175.5.Z25 A3 1994".
- catalog subject "Historians United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.".
- catalog title "You can't be neutral on a moving train : a personal history of our times / Howard Zinn.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".