Joe Allen (writer)

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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).

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]}

• 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

• People Wasn't Made to Burn - from Haymarket Books On YouTube.com
• Taylor, Elizabeth; Gary Krist; Joe Allen (June 9, 2012). "Book Discussion on [City of Scoundrels] and [People Wasn't Made to Burn]". Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest/Book TV. C-SPAN2 Video (49 minutes). Retrieved 18 June 2013.
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