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Chargement... Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America (édition 2020)par Mary Grabar (Auteur)
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"Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach students that American history is nothing more than a litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation. Zinn's history is popular, but it is also massively wrong. Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in her stunning new book Debunking Howard Zinn, which demolishes Zinn's Marxist talking points that now dominate American education." -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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But, as professor Mary Grabar here points out in a note, an intro, and nine chapters (on Columbus, Zinn, Indians, Racism, World War II, Communism in the Cold War, Black Power, Vietnam, and the Founders), Zinn not only has an ideological ax to grind, he paraphrases to the point of plagiarism, selectively quotes to bend sources to his will, and roundly ignores whole counter-arguments to his ideas. It's bad history. As Grabar points out in the introduction, if the AHA applied its rules for historians to Zinn's opus, it would fail. But nobody does because many leftist historians sympathize with Zinn, even if they disdain his methods. Thus (see pp. 253-256) even historians who pointed out bad history in Zinn, like Sam Wineberg and Michael Kazin, jumped to his defense when a rascally Repubwican Mitch Daniels dared to suggest Zinn not be used in Indiana public colleges or K-12 schools. Then the same liberal/leftist historians who questioned Zinn became his stoutest defenders.
The problem with a book like this, published by rightist outfit Regnery, is that it is primarily preaching to the choir. I'm sure only conservative historians like me will read it and appreciate it. Leftists won't even bother to pick it up. And if they did, they would find it philippic and unconvincing. It may change the minds of a few moderates, but this book is mainly fodder for the minds of conservatives to attack Zinn for his historiographic and methodological sins (and perhaps actual sins too... but what are sins to a communist?).
There are, unfortunately, too many typos and errors in the text. The copyeditor should be fired. Hire me. No images or maps. Endnotes. No bibliography, which would have been nice: selected readings to counter Zinn. Index.
Anyway. A good book to understand Zinn's abject, propagandistic, Marxist, hateful, anti-American failings. ( )