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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... decisions of society are within the capability of ordinary citizens . Not only can ordinary people make decisions about these is- sues , but they ought to , because citizens understand their own interests more clearly than any experts ...
... decisions of the President and his senior staff members . 1 * In 1988 a story in a Beirut magazine led to information that Ronald Reagan's administration had been secretly selling arms to Iran , the declared enemy of the United States ...
... decision and do so in his absence - someone whose head can later be placed on the block if things go terribly wrong . " ( Cesare Borgia again , only lacking the blood - stained knife . ) Schlesinger included in his memo sample questions ...
... deciding whether or not to use the atomic bomb , said later it was done " to end the war in victory with the least possible cost in the lives of the men in the armies . " " " This was based on the assumption that without atomic bombs ...
... decision and espe- cially the diaries of Henry Stimson , concludes that the atomic bombs were dropped to impress the Soviet Union , as a first act in establishing American power in the postwar world . He points out that the Soviet Union ...
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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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