<DIV>When the historian Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions mourned the loss of one of our foremost intellectual and political guides: a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the <I>New york Times</I>'s Bob Herbert, “peel[ed] back the rosy veneer of much of American history.”<BR><BR>Designed to highlight Zinn's most important writings, <I>The Indispensable</I> Zinn includes excerpts from Zinn's bestselling <I>A People's History of the United States</I>; his memoir, <I>You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train</I>; his inspiring writings on the civil rights movement; and the full text of his celebrated play <I>Marx in Soho</I>. Noted historian and activist Timothy Patrick McCarthy provides essential historical and biographical context for each selection.<BR><BR>With an introduction from Zinn's former Spellman College student and longtime friend Alice Walker and an afterword by Zinn's friend and colleague Noam Chomsky, <I>The Indispensable Zinn</I> is both a fitting tribute to the legacy of a man whose “work changed the way millions of people saw the past” (Noam Chomsky) and a powerful and accessible introduction for anyone discovering Zinn for the first time.<BR></DIV>