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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... believe that great thinkers - experts — are objec- tive , that they have no axes to grind and no biases , and that they make pure intellectual judgments . However , the minds of all human beings are powerfully influenced ( though not ...
... believe , they can be made to believe by force .... Fortune is a woman , and it is necessary , if you wish to master her , to conquer her by force . " 1 The fox uses deception . If all men were good , this would not be good advice , but ...
... believe that the end justifies any means , and we do not . " But this was before Hiroshima and Nagasaki . To make a proper moral judgment , we would have to put into the balancing the testimony of the victims . Here are the words of ...
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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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