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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872865099 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100167600 02 0872865096 03 9780872865099 15 9780872865099 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights Open Media</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>The Bomb</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The</TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix>Bomb</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Zinn, Howard Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (1922 –2010) was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missions for the United States in World War II, an experience he now points to in shaping his opposition to war. Under the GI Bill he went to college and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. In 1956, he became a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, a school for black women, where he soon became involved in the civil rights movement, which he participated in as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and chronicled, in his book SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Zinn collaborated with historian Staughton Lynd and mentored a young student named Alice Walker. When he was fired in 1963 for insubordination related to his protest work, he moved to Boston University, where he became a leading critic of the Vietnam War. In his liftetime, Zinn received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He is perhaps best known for A People's History of the United States. City Lights previously published his essay collection A Power Governments Cannot Suppress. We feel lucky and proud to have known and worked with him, and are honored to bring The Historic Unfulfilled Promise to a wide readership. 01 eng 100 00 100 03 20 atomic bomb;france;hiroshima;japan;japanese history;politics;royan;world war 2;wwii 01 As an active WWII bombardier returning from the end of the war in Europe and preparing for combat in Japan, Howard Zinn read the headline "Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan" and was glad—the war would be over. "Like other Americans," writes Zinn, "I had no idea what was going on at the higher levels, and had no idea what that 'atomic bomb' had done to men, women, children in Hiroshima, any more than I ever really understood what the bombs I dropped on European cities were doing to human flesh and blood." During the war, Zinn had taken part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France, and in 1966, he went to Hiroshima, where he was invited to a "house of rest" where survivors of the bombing gathered. In this short and powerful book, the backstory of the making and use of the bomb, Zinn offers his deep personal reflections and political analysis of these events, and the profound influence they had in transforming him from an order-taking combat soldier to one of our greatest anti-authoritarian, anti-war historians. Simultaneous publication this August in the U.S. and Japan commemorates the 65th anniversary of the USA's two atomic bombings of Japan by calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons and an end to war as an acceptable solution to human conflict. "It's my favorite. . . . He wrote the book to remind himself and to remind us that anybody can throw the wrench in the machinery, and we often should." -- Bill Moyers "Part history, part memoir, part sermon, The Bomb is meant to wake up citizens, to rouse them to reject 'the abstractions of duty and obedience' and to refuse to heed the call of war." —Jonah Raskin, The Rag Blog 02 Howard Zinn's personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the U.S. bombings of Royan and Hiroshima 08 "His writings and speeches, coupled with the example of his brave activism, have inspired and changed the lives of countless people, young and old. Certainly much of his power lies in the seeming contradiction between his unflinching criticism of almost every established idea and his unflinching optimism--what he himself called his 'absurdly cheerful approach to a violent and unjust world.' " -- Douglas Lummis CounterPunch 08 "A bomb is highly impersonal. The dropper can kill hundreds, and never see any of them. 'The Bomb' is the memoir of Howard Zinn, a bomber in World War II who dropped bombs along the French countryside while campaigning against Germany. After learning of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Zinn now speaks out against the use of bombs and what it can do to warfare. Thoughtful and full of stories of an old soldier who regrets what he has done, ‘The Bomb’ is a fine posthumous release that shares much of the lost wisdom of World War II." —James A. Cox The Midwest Book Review 08 <meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel="File-List" href="file:///Users/harmony/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Clipboard/msoclip1/01/clip_clip_filelist.xml" />  <style type="text/css">  </style>  </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> </meta> "Throughout his academic career, his popular writings and work as an activist Zinn consistently, and often successfully, threw a wrench in the works of the US war machine. He may be gone, but through his powerful and passionate body of work – of which The Bomb is an excellent introduction – thousands of others will be educated and inspired to work for a more humane and peaceful world." —Ian Sinclair  Morning Star 08 "Zinn, the people's historian, leaves us with words that bring together thought, action, and passion. His experience during World War II left him unpersuaded by the arguments of military necessity and the appeals to nationalism. We must refuse 'to be transfixed by the actions of other people, the truths of other times,' he writes in The Bomb. This 'means acting on what we feel and think, here, now, for human flesh and sense, against the abstractions of duty and obedience.'" —Marcus Raskin Foreign Policy in Focus 08 "The path that Howard Zinn walked—from bombardier to activist—gives hope that each of us can move from clinical detachment to ardent commitment, from violence to nonviolence." — Frida Berrigan WIN Magazine 08 "Zinn's last book is a modest appeal to humanity: War is miserable, and we have to stop it." —Micah Uetricht In These Times 08 "The late Howard Zinn's new book The Bomb is a brilliant little dissection of some of the central myths of our militarized society." —David Swanson LA Progressive 08 "Part history, part memoir, part sermon, The Bomb is meant to wake up citizens, to rouse them to reject 'the abstractions of duty and obedience' and to refuse to heed the call of war." —Jonah Raskin, The Rag Blog The Rag Blog 08 "This is in all likelihood the final original book by long-time VFP member and WWII vet Zinn. It has a publication date of August 2010 to mark the 65th anniversary of America's two atomic bombings of Japan. The much-loved, greatly admired Zinn died in January, 2010 at 88, just a month after completing this volume." —Will Shapira Veterans for Peace 08 "Occasioned by the 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Zinn's final work (completed just before his death in January 2010), combines a discussion of the horrors of atomic warfare with a glimpse at the carnage in Royan, which included the deaths of over 1,000 civilians in one of the first uses of napalm. . . . Zinn's call to reject disproportionate violence in war remains unalloyed and relevant to today's conflicts."—Brendan Driscoll Booklist 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100167600/extras/TheBombExcerptCL.pdf 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100167600/images/87286100167600L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100167600/images/87286100167600S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100167600 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20100801 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20100801 01 02 8.95 USD