A Personal History of Our Times 
 
Howard Zinn. 
 
Beacon Press: 1994. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Shelf wear along the edges of the jacket and smudges and specks on the front and back covers. Besides a couple of tiny specks on the edges of the text block this book is crisp. 214 pages. Jacket is very good, book near fine. Signed. 
 
Zinn brings his skills as a historian to his own incredible life. Jewish slum kid, bombardier in WW2, political prisoner. That's just a few moments. His passion for justice and for teaching shine throughout. 
 
"I insist on hope. It is a feeling, yes. But it is not irrational. People respect feelings but still want reasons. Reasons for going on, for not surrendering, for not retreating into private luxury or private desperation. People want evidence of those possibilities in human behavior I have talked about. I have suggested that there are reasons. I believe there is evidence. But too much to give the questioner that night in Kalamazoo. It would take book. 
So I decided to write one."