Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and JusticeHarper Collins, 17 juni 2003 - 368 sidor From the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at American political ideology. Howard Zinn brings to Passionate Declarations the same astringent style and provocative point of view that led more than a million people to buy his book A People's History of the United States. He directs his critique here to what he calls "American orthodoxies" -- that set of beliefs guardians of our culture consider sacrosanct: justifications for war, cynicism about human nature and violence, pride in our economic system, certainty of our freedom of speech, romanticization of representative government, confidence in our system of justice. Those orthodoxies, he believes, have a chilling effect on our capacity to think independently and to become active citizens in the long struggle for peace and justice. |
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... armed prophets have conquered and unarmed ones failed . " 2 Political ideas are centered on the issue of ends ( What kind of society do we want ? ) and means ( How will we get it ? ) . In that one sentence about unarmed prophets ...
... armed forces . . . . The episode contains all the unchanging elements of the Salvadoran tragedy- uncontrolled military violence against civilians , the apparent ability of the wealthy to procure official violence ... and the presence of ...
... armed forces . " 31 Schlesinger was just one of dozens of presidential advisers who behaved like little Machiavellis in the years when revolutions in Viet- nam and Latin America brought hysterical responses on the part of the U.S. ...
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FOUR The Use and Abuse of History | 48 |
The American Class System | 147 |
Second Thoughts on the First Amendment | 182 |
The Black Experience | 231 |
ELEVEN The Ultimate Power | 278 |
NOTES | 303 |
INDEX | 333 |
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