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Joe Allen (writer)
American author, journalist, historian, and activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joe Allen (born July 19, 1960) is an American author, journalist, historian, and activist. He authored People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago (ISBN 1608461262) published by Haymarket Books in 2011. His latest book is The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service (2016).
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Early life
Allen was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts, the son of Beverly Ann Vigneaux and William Henry Allen. He has three sisters.[citation needed] He graduated from Stoughton High School in 1978. He entered the University of Massachusetts Boston in the fall of 1978 and took classes through 1983 but did not graduate.[citation needed]
His previous books, Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost and People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago, were both published by Haymarket books.[citation needed]
Allen has contributed over the years to the U.S. edition of Socialist Worker, the International Socialist Review, CounterPunch, In These Times, and Jacobin.[citation needed]
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Books
- Vietnam: The (Last) War the US Lost (ISBN 1931859493), foreword by John Pilger, 2007
- People Wasn't Made to Burn (ISBN 1608461262), 2011
- The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service, 2016
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