The Politics of History: With a New IntroductionThis paperback bestseller presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role. In a new introduction written for this edition, Howard Zinn responds to critics of the 1970 edition and comments further on the radicalization of history. |
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Contents
Introduction to the First Edition | 1 |
APPROACHES | 5 |
History as private enterprise | 15 |
What is radical history? | 35 |
ESSAYS IN AMERICAN HISTORY | 57 |
The Ludlow Massacre | 79 |
LaGuardia in the Jazz Age | 102 |
The Limits of the New Deal | 118 |
Aggressive Liberalism | 195 |
Vietnam The Moral Equation | 209 |
The Prisoners A Bit of Contemporary History | 223 |
Violence The Double Standard | 237 |
Hiroshima and Royan | 250 |
THEORY AND PRAXIS | 275 |
The Historians | 288 |
The Philosophers | 320 |
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