In this lecture, recorded a month after 9/11, America's finest social historian examines the role and response of artists in society, and particularly during wartime and crisis. With his distinctive blend of low key wit, expansive knowledge of history, and Sherlockian ability to uncover the real stories of this country underneath the detrius of corporate disinformation and monoculture, Zinn - through the words and actions of the likes of Langston Hughes, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Heller, EE Cummings, Dalton Trumbo, Arthur Miller, Eartha Kitt, Kurt Vonnegut, and Daniel Berrigan - illustrates that pride in one's country comes not from the words and deeds of government, but from the actions of working people.