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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Essays on War and Justice Howard Zinn. HOWARD ZINN Passionate Declarations ESSAYS ON WAR AND JUSTICE " A shotgun blast of revisionism that aims to shatter all the comfortable myths of American political discourse . " -Los Angeles Times ...
... Justice 106 SEVEN Economic Justice : The American Class System 147 EIGHT Free Speech : Second Thoughts on the First Amendment 182 NINE Representative Government : The Black Experience 231 TEN Communism and Anti - communism 259 ELEVEN ...
... justice , and humanity . If such a state , which is surrounded with the rhetoric of democracy and liberty and , in truth , has some measure of both , engages in a war that is clearly against a vicious and demonstrably evil enemy , then ...
... justice for all human beings on earth . The Anti - Machiavellians There have always been people who did think for themselves , against the dominant ideology , and when there were enough of them history had its splendid moments : a war ...
... 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 . " It has been Zinn's life's work to illuminate the ...
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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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