[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submission/nonfiction
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 00:04:34 -0800 (PST)
Thanks, Deborah. Roger, might this be some thing you'd be interested in?
Cindy
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--- On Sat, 1/2/10, Deborah Murray <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Deborah Murray <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submission/nonfiction
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 6:54 PM
> Hi all,
>
> I've just submitted for proofing "The Zinn Reader: Writings
> on Disobedience
> and Democracy" by Howard Zinn.
>
> It's been read through with pre-submission work done.
> Headers stripped;
> chapter titles and page numbers present, protected and
> formatted. Lots of
> proper names, some jargon and deliberate misspellings.
> 746 pages.
>
> Synopsis:
> While many Americans are familiar with historian Howard
> Zinn, particularly
> those on the political left, most have limited themselves
> to reading his
> most famous work A People's History of the United States
> and perhaps a
> recent article or two. This volume collects a range of his
> other
> materials--essays, articles, pamphlets, reviews, book
> excerpts, book
> introductions, and the like--written over the past 35
> years. Zinn himself
> modestly wonders if the collection is "an opportunity, or a
> punishment," but
> fans of A People's History will likely view it as an
> opportunity to revisit
> Zinn's characteristic themes in new settings. These
> themes--race, class,
> war, law, history, and the issue of means versus ends--also
> serve as the
> organizing principle of the book.
>
> Deborah
>
>
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