Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and JusticeFrom 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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... York , becom- ing a shipyard worker at the age of eighteen , enlisting in the Air Force in World War II , participating in the civil rights movement in the Deep South , cried out against that . It seems to me we should make the most of ...
... York City Bar Association , described for the New York Times a massacre of eighteen peasants by local troops in Sonsonate province : Ten military advisers are attached to the Sonsonate armed forces . . . . The episode contains all the ...
... York Times columnist James Reston wrote , It may be and probably is true , that Mr. Kissinger as well as Secretary of State Rogers and most of the senior officers in the State Department are opposed to the President's bombing offensive ...
... York Times . When the Times , in a journalistic sensation , began printing this " top - secret " document , Ellsberg was arrested and put on trial . The counts against him could have brought a prison sentence of 130 years . But while ...
Contents
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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 |