TEHRAN-The book “A Young People's History of the United States” written by professor Howard Zinn has been released in bookstores across Iran.

Translated by Fatemeh Shafiei Sarvestani, the book has been published by Jamkaran Publications under the title “American Dream,” IRNA reported.

Originally published in 2007, the book brings to U.S. history the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Black people, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people.

Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus's arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers' rights, women's rights, and civil rights during the 19th and 20th centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn presents a radical new way of understanding America's history. In so doing, he reminds listeners that America's true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, and socialist intellectual. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential “A People's History of the United States” in 1980. It was a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, “A Young People's History of the United States”.

The visionary historical work of professor and activist Howard Zinn is widely considered one of the most important and influential of our era. In his books, Zinn affirms the power of the people to influence the course of events.

Zinn described himself as “something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist”. He wrote extensively about the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the labor history of the United States. 

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