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Tuesday, June 3, 2003

Dan Flynn (who's book, "Why the Left Hates America" you can purchase
here
) takes a chainsaw to Marxist Professor Howard Zinn's magnum opus, "A People's History of the United States" (get it here). I have Zinn's book on my shelf and read it years ago. Enjoyed it, but I wonder what I'd think of it now, with a few more years, a bit more experience and a bit more mindfullness toward agendas under my belt. Think I should re-read it? Nah...

FrontPage magazine.com

Who is the most influential historian in America? Could it be Pulitzer Prize winners Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. or Joseph Ellis or David McCullough, whose scholarly works have reached a broad literary public? The answer is none of the above. The accolade belongs instead to the unreconstructed, anti-American Marxist Howard Zinn, whose cartoon anti-history of the United States is still selling 128,000 copies a year twenty years after its original publication. Many of those copies are assigned readings for courses in colleges and high schools taught by leftist disciples of their radical mentor.

“Objectivity is impossible,” Zinn once remarked, “and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.”

History serving “a social aim” other than the preservation or interpretation of a historical record is precisely what we get in A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn’s 776 page tome, which after selling more than a million copies, has been recently re-released in a hardback edition.[...]

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