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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... thousands of Vietnamese noncombatants . Sometimes , the language is more direct , as when President Lyndon Johnson , speaking to the nation during the Vietnam War , talked of the United States as being " number one . " Or , when he said ...
... thousand times more destructive than the one dropped on Hiroshima , J. Robert Oppenheimer , personally horrified by the idea , was still moved to pronounce the scheme of Edward Teller and Stanis- law Ulam for producing it as ...
... thousands to give a fuller picture . * 9 A thirty - five - year - old man : " A woman with her jaw missing and her tongue hanging out of her mouth was wandering around the area of Shinsho - machi in the heavy , black rain . She was ...
... thousands of doves , which had been released at that moment to declare the aim of a peaceful world . A few days later , some of us were invited to a house in Hiroshima that had been established as a center for victims of the bomb to ...
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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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