The Disgraceful Howard Zinn
Posted By: davew, 1/9/2022 3:11:29 PM
Despite many serious scholars’ denunciations, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has enjoyed phenomenal success since its publication in 1980: 2.6 million (!) copies sold, incorporation into the curricula of innumerable schools, and the achievement of almost iconic status in popular culture. Mary Grabar’s Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America performs a valuable service by examining Zinn’s polemical volume and revealing “just how distorted, manipulative, and plain dishonest” it truly is.
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The Disgraceful Howard Zinn
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Despite many serious scholars’ denunciations, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has enjoyed phenomenal success since its publication in 1980: 2.6 million (!) copies sold, incorporation into the curricula of innumerable schools, and the achievement of almost iconic status in popular culture. Mary Grabar’s Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America performs a valuable service by examining Zinn’s polemical volume and revealing “just how distorted, manipulative, and plain dishonest” it truly is.
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Howard Zinn is the L. Ron Hubbard of American History. His crackpot poisoning of the American mind has created a cult not unlike Scientology that raises its head every Columbus Day in schools across the country. I've been reading Prof. Grabar's expose and its a must read if you want to know who the sources were for the nonsense seen in the media every day.