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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... deaths of countless peasants and large numbers of political prisoners . Other ideas — leave the poor on their own ... death . In the years of the Reagan presidency , " laissez - faire " meant budget cutting for family care , which led ...
... death . If those in charge of our society - politicians , corporate executives , and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas , they will be secure in their power . They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets . We ...
... death . As his body swung in the air , boys from the neigh- borhood stoned it . The corpse was set afire , and when the fire had done its work , the ashes were strewn in the river Arno . ' In The Prince , Machiavelli refers to ...
... deaths of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese noncombatants . Sometimes , the language is more direct , as when President Lyndon Johnson , speaking to the nation during the Vietnam War , talked of the United States as being " number one ...
... death and destruction five miles below our planes . Years before that , while a teenager on the streets of Brooklyn , I watched a black man in an argument with an old Jewish man , a pushcart peddler who seemed to be his employer . It ...
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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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