Argues for a radical approach to history
Howard Zinn was professor emeritus of political science at
Boston University. He was the author of ten books, among them A
People's History of the United States and LaGuardia in Congress, a
winner of the Beveridge Award.
"The meaning of the sixties in intellectual, political and cultural
life is very much debated today. . . . If you want to know how the
civil rights movement and the peace movement affected the writing
of American history, and indeed the history of the profession
itself, Zinn's collection is still the best thing to read."--James
R. Green, University of Massachusetts at Boston
"At least for appearance's sake traditional historians have worn
that balanced judgment they can 'no more discard than their pants'
[p. 163]. Lodging a sharp critique of these erect professionals
with humor and grace, Zinn shows that they clothe themselves in
this spurious neutrality and in comparable
bamboozlements--disinterested scholarship, objective study,
dispassionate learning, among them [p. 139]; to cover the simple
truth that history is contested terrain in which they are not
innocent bystanders. A powerful debamboozler, The Politics of
History is a no less powerful call to us all to remember 'forgotten
visions, lost utopias, unfulfilled dreams' [pp. 13-14]."-- Richard
Drinnon, Bucknell University
"Reissuing The Politics of History is a splendid idea. The issues
Zinn deals with are as relevant today as when the book was first
published."-- Marilyn B. Young, New York University
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