In just a few days the new president has upended the rules of democracy with a clumsy heavy-handedness worse than we imagined.

The essays in Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident remind us that Zinn was not just a historian: he was also deeply involved in the major 20th century struggles for social justice in the United States.

Bill Moyers looks closely at the summer of 1787 and the 55 men who came together to write the Constitution