" Voices should be on every bookshelf. [It presents] the rich tradition of struggle in the United States, from the resistance to the conquest of the Americas in the era of Columbus through the protests today of soldiers and their families against the brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq."- Arundhati Roy "In Voices , Howard Zinn has given us our true story, the ongoing, not-so-secret narrative of race and class in America."- Russell Banks "Gut-wrenching."- Jon Stewart "To omit or to minimize these voices of resistance is to create the idea that power only rests with those who have the guns, who possess the wealth, who own the newspapers and the television stations. I want to point out that people who seem to have no power, whether working people, people of color, or women-once they organize and protest and create movements-have a voice no government can suppress."- Howard Zinn , from the Introduction Voices of a People's History of the United States is the companion volume to historian Howard Zinn's legendary best-selling book A People's History of the United States . This second edition introduces four new voices: Camílo Mejia, the first U.S. soldier serving in Iraq to go public with his refusal to continue fighting Bush's war; Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in action in Iraq, and whose speeches galvanized sentiment against the occupation of Iraq; Kevin Tillman, whose brother Pat, a former NFL player, was killed in Afghanistan in a case of "friendly fire"; and twelve-year-old Evann Orleck-Jetter, who testified before a 2009 public hearing of the Joint Senate and House Judiciary Committee in Vermont in support of equal rights for gay and lesbian families. Historian and activist Howard Zinn 's visionary telling of our history is widely considered one of the most important and influential of our era. In A People's History of the United States , A Young People's History of the United States , Voices of a People's History of the United States , and, in Spanish, La otra historia de los Estados Unidos , Zinn affirms the power of the people to influence the course of events. Zinn's other books include the newly updated The Zinn Reader , Terrorism and War with Anthony Arnove, the autobiographical You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train , and the play Marx in Soho . Anthony Arnove is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal , editor of Iraq Under Siege and The Essential Chomsky , and coauthor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States and Terrorism and War . He is the codirector of The People Speak with Chris Moore and Howard Zinn.