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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... peace , nationalism against internationalism , equality against greed , and democracy against elit- ism — and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts . Writing this book , I do not claim to be ...
... peaceful and obedient to his rule . " Therefore , " he appointed Messer Remirro de Orco , a cruel and able man , to whom he gave the fullest authority " and who , in a short time , made Rome " orderly and united . " But Cesare Borgia ...
... peace and Bush became the next president of the United States , both beneficiaries of plausible denial . Machiavelli would have admired the operation . A prince , Machiavelli suggested , should emulate both the lion and the fox.16 The ...
... he concealed from the American public the 1969-1970 massive bombing of Cambodia , a country with which we were supposed to be at peace . The Advisers Advisers and assistants to presidents , however committed 18 PASSIONATE DECLARATIONS.
... peace agreement to end the war in late 1972 , he approved the breaking off of the talks and the brutal bombardment of residential districts in Hanoi by the most ferocious bombing plane of the time , the B - 52.32 Kissinger's biographers ...
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 |