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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... 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 the influential Foreign ...
... speak I looked out at the Japanese men and women sitting on the floor in front of me , people with horribly burned faces , people with no eyes in their sockets , without arms , or without legs , but all quietly waiting for me to speak ...
... speak- ing in an emphatic and incredulous way , denounced the whole idea . " 56 During the Vietnam War , advisers from MIT and Harvard were among the fiercest advocates of ruthless bombing , but a few rebelled . One of the earliest was ...
... that took place during and after the Vietnam War . A number of opera- tives of the CIA quit their jobs in the late sixties and early seventies and began to write and speak about the secret activities of 30 PASSIONATE DECLARATIONS.
Essays on War and Justice Howard Zinn. began to write and speak about the secret activities of the agency - for example , Victor Marchetti , Philip Agee , John Stockwell , Frank Snepp , and Ralph McGehee . For the United States , as for ...
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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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