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In these informal, challenging essays that link the personal to the political, Zinn ( A People's History of the United States ) aims to shake complacency, to challenge what he calls "American orthodoxies" or received opinions about history and government. He charges that Machiavellian tactics have dominated policies of presidents in their pursuit of "national security interests." Calling the American economic system "shamefully wasteful and unjust," the Boston University political scientist urges a "real war on poverty" and on pollution, a turnaround in national priorities away from massive military spending. Recognition that the Soviet Union is a police state, he believes, should not lead us to embrace "fanatical anticommunism" or to justify the U.S. government's control over other countries. He argues that there are no just wars, accuses the major media of slavishness to government-business control and knocks social theories that resort to "human nature" to explain war and class inequities.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
--Los Angeles Times
"A shotgun blast of revisionism that aims to shatter all the comfortable myths of American political discourse."
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In these informal, challenging essays that link the personal to the political, Zinn ( A People's History of the United States ) aims to shake complacency, to challenge what he calls "American orthodoxies" or received opinions about history and government. He charges that Machiavellian tactics have dominated policies of presidents in their pursuit of "national security interests." Calling the American economic system "shamefully wasteful and unjust," the Boston University political scientist urges a "real war on poverty" and on pollution, a turnaround in national priorities away from massive military spending. Recognition that the Soviet Union is a police state, he believes, should not lead us to embrace "fanatical anticommunism" or to justify the U.S. government's control over other countries. He argues that there are no just wars, accuses the major media of slavishness to government-business control and knocks social theories that resort to "human nature" to explain war and class inequities.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
--Los Angeles Times
"A shotgun blast of revisionism that aims to shatter all the comfortable myths of American political discourse."
See all Editorial Reviews
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- Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision by Davis D. Joyce on 17 pages
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- Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative) by Howard Zinn on page 125, page 129, and page 132
- Justice And Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism And Cultural Transformation (Ethics and Global Politics) by Allan Eickelmann on page 98, and Back Matter
- Literacies Of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed To Know (The Edge : Critical Studies in Educational Theory) by Donaldo Macedo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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