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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... clearly and think more intelligently than ordinary citizens . Some- times they do , sometimes not . The other assumption is that these experts have the same interests as ordinary citizens , want the same things , hold the same values ...
... clearly under- stood that difference of interest between government and citizen . It says that the purpose of government is to secure certain rights for its citi- zens - life , liberty , equality , and the pursuit of happiness . But ...
... clearly opposed another Vietnam ( unless done on a small scale , like Reagan's invasion of Grenada , and Bush's invasion of Panama ) . But for the following eight years , the aims of the United States were clear : to overthrow the left ...
... clear Machiavellian terms : " The great object of American foreign policy ought to be the restoration of a more normal political world , a world in which those states possessing the elements of great power once again play the role their ...
... clearly was in favor of such actions , was not to be directly involved , so that he could deny knowledge of it . This was given the term plausible denial . As the committee reported : Non - attribution to the United States for covert ...
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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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