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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... withdrawal from the war . Kiss- inger looked at the possibilities and crossed that one off before giving the list to President Richard Nixon . In debates on the military budget there are heated arguments 2 PASSIONATE DECLARATIONS.
... President Lyndon Johnson , speaking to the nation during the Vietnam War , talked of the United States as being " number one . " Or , when he said , " Make no mistake about it , we will prevail . " Even more blunt was a 1980 article in ...
... President Reagan to advise him on Central American policy , warned in its report that our “ southern flank ” was in danger — a biological reference designed to make all of us nervous . Even a brief look at history was enough to make one ...
... president , Gerald Ford , became presi- dent . Nixon retired in prosperity and , in a few years , became a kind of elder statesman , a Godfather of politics , looked to for sage advice . Perhaps as a way of calming the public in that ...
... presidents of modern democratic states , despite their pretensions , have also admired and followed Machiavelli . Max Lerner , a prominent liberal commentator on the post - World War II period , in his introduction to Machiavelli's ...
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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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