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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... Means and Ends 9 THREE Violence and Human Nature 32 FOUR The Use and Abuse of History 48 FIVE Just and Unjust War 67 SIX Law and Justice 106 SEVEN Economic Justice : The American Class System 147 EIGHT Free Speech : Second Thoughts on ...
... means telling the truth as we see it , not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view . But we don't want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don't play a part in the social struggles of our time ...
... means accepting the way things are now . It is a world of clashing interests - war against peace , nationalism against internationalism , equality against greed , and democracy against elit- ism — and it seems to me both impossible and ...
... one of those great thinkers , Niccolò Machiavelli , and examining the connection between him and the makers of foreign policy in the United States . TWO Machiavellian Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy : Means and 8 PASSIONATE DECLARATIONS.
... Means and Ends A Interests : The Prince and the Citizen bout 500 years ago modern political thinking began . Its enticing surface was the idea of “ realism . ” Its ruthless center was the idea that with a worthwhile end one could ...
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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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