Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works

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JUSTICE IN EVERYDAY LIFE
The Way It Really Works

Edited and introduced by Howard Zinn

Haymarket Books (September 2012)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608463022 • US $19.00 • 392 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Howard Zinn’s edited collection on the way justice really works in the United States.

Through this collection of voices, first published in 1977, Zinn explores ordinary people facing “justice” in the United States, in contrast to national myths of all Americans’ equal rights under the law. With sections on the police, the courts, prisons, housing, work, health, schools, and popular struggle, Justice in Everyday Life features classic essays by a diverse group of authors, including Jonathan Kozol.

PRAISE FOR HOWARD ZINN:

“Howard Zinn’s work literally changed the conscience of a generation.”

Noam Chomsky

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist. He wrote the classic A People’s History of the United States, “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those … whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories” (Library Journal). The book, which has sold more than 2.6 million copies and been translated into 23 foreign editions, has become a cultural touchstone, encouraging interest in “people’s histories” in universities and activist meetings alike. In 2009, History aired The People Speak, an acclaimed documentary co-directed by Zinn, based on A People’s History and a companion volume, Voices of a People’s History of the United States. As Noam Chomsky wrote, “Howard Zinn’s work literally changed the conscience of a generation.”

Zinn grew up in a working-class, immigrant household in Brooklyn. At eighteen, he became a shipyard worker and flew bomber missions over Europe during World War II, experiences which helped to shape his opposition to war and his interest in the lives of working people. After attending college under the GI Bill and earning a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, he taught at Spelman College, a historically black women’s college, where he became active in the civil rights movement. After being fired by Spelman for his support for student protesters, Zinn became a professor of Political Science at Boston University, where he taught until his retirement in 1988. He wrote more than forty books.