Includes index.

This book is based on the transcripts of conversations between Howard Zinn and Ray Suarez that took place in 2007.

Never before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical conversation between Howard Zinn and PBS/NPR journalist Ray Suarez, wherein American history is turned upside downpublished to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Zinns death. Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary peopleincluding slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans. Viewed through the lens of Zinns own life as a soldier, historian, and activist and using his paradigm-shifting Peoples History of the United States as a point of departure, these conversations explore the American Revolution, the Civil War, the labor battles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, U.S. imperialism from the Indian Wars to the War on Terrorism, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the fight for equality and immigrant rights, all from an unapologetically radical standpoint. Longtime admirers and a new generation of readers alike will be fascinated to learn about Zinns thought processes, rationale, motivations, and approach to his now-iconic historical work. Suarezs probing questions and Zinns humane (and often humorous) voicealong with his keen moral visionshine through every one of these lively and thought-provoking conversations, showing that Zinns work is as relevant as ever.