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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... bombing of Indochina and those who wanted a limited bombing . The choice of withdrawing from Vietnam altogether was not offered . Daniel Ellsberg , working for Henry Kissinger in 1969 , was given the job of drawing a list of alternative ...
... bombing " military targets . " Another was a deception by President Richard Nixon ; he concealed from the American public the 1969-1970 massive bombing of Cambodia , a country with which we were supposed to be at peace . The Advisers ...
... bombing and invasion of Cambodia , an act so disruptive of the delicate Cambodian society that it can be considered an important factor in the rise of the murderous Pol Pot regime in that country . After he and the representatives of ...
... Bombing Survey , which interviewed 700 Japanese military and political officials after the war , came to this conclusion : Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese ...
... bombing of Japan : " If we consider international agreement on total prevention of nuclear warfare as the paramount objective . . . this kind of introduction of atomic weapons to the world may easily destroy all our chances of success ...
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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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