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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... wealth or power . For instance : " Be realistic ; this is the way things are ; there's no point thinking about how things should be . " " People who teach or write or report the news should be objective ; they should not try to advance ...
... wealth and power in our society will remain secure in their control . In the year 1984 Forbes magazine , a leading ... wealthy individuals controlled ( without necessarily owning ) over $ 2,000 billion ( $ 2 trillion ) . Consider the ...
... wealth in society - we are in the area of political theory , or political philosophy . There is a list of famous political thinkers who are tradition- ally used to initiate discussion on these long - term problems , including Plato ...
... wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways , neutrality means accepting the way things are now . It is a world of clashing interests - war against peace , nationalism against internationalism , equality against greed , and ...
... wealth and power . When the Founding Fathers of the United States wrote the Preamble to the Constitution , their first words were , " We the People of the United States , in order to form a more perfect union , establish jus- tice ...
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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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