Agitation with a Smile

Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, Joshua C. Yesnowitz

• Chapter 1 Agitation with a Smile, Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, Joshua C. Yesnowitz; Chapter 2 Ludlow Massacre; Part 1 Zinn as Historian and Public Intellectual; Chapter 3 Legacies and Breakthroughs, Ambre Ivol, Paul Buhle; Chapter 4 The US Left in Generational Perspective, Ambre Ivol; Chapter 5 Thinking the Radical Public Intellectual, Paul Reynolds; Part 2 Zinn in Theory; Chapter 6 Against All Authority, Eric Boehme; Chapter 7 The Forbidden Word, Žiga Vodovnik; Chapter 8 Politics against the Law, Christopher C. Robinson; Chapter 9 Dear Diary, Alix Olson; Part 3 Zinn in Practice; Chapter 10 War Is a Condition in Need of a Cure, Patricia Moynagh; Chapter 11 Howard Zinn, Ross Caputi; Chapter 12 Archivists of Optimism, Alix Olson; Chapter 13 Walking, Martín Espada; Part 4 Zinn Today and Tomorrow; Chapter 14 Two, Three, Many Zinns, Edward P. Morgan; Chapter 15 For Howard Zinn, Irene Gendzier*I want to thank the three editors of this volume—Joshua Yesnowitz, Stephen Bird, and Adam Silver—for their initiative and commitment to its publication. I also wish to thank some of those former students at Boston University and friends of Howard Zinn who sent testimony of their appreciation on the occasion of the memorial for Zinn organized by members of the BU Political Science Department and other faculty on March 27, 2010, including José Velasco Cruz, from Mexico; Rachid Tlemcani, from Algeria; Bill Hansen, from Nigeria; and Danny Schechter, from New York.; Chapter 16 Reassessing Zinn, Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, Joshua C. Yesnowitz; afterword Afterword, Noam Chomsky;

"This book consists of thirteen chapters, a foreword by Frances Fox Piven and an afterword by Noam Chomsky. The configuration (of sections) is perfect for teaching the text.... Rich with significant concepts.....As I read each section of this book I imagined myself walking through passenger “cars” on Zinn’s famous metaphor of history as a “moving train” (2002) and each contributor sparked an inner dialogue with their unique readings and encounters with Zinn’s life." -Teacher's College Record