Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
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AlbakiReads Editorial Essays challenging the orthodoxies of U.S. political life
Essays challenging the orthodoxies of U.S. political life
In this essay collection, Howard Zinn examines the beliefs he identifies as “American orthodoxies”: familiar assumptions about war, human nature, economic opportunity, free speech, representative government, and justice. The book places questions of peace and social justice at the center of its critique, connecting arguments about U.S. foreign policy and warfare with discussions of class, government support for wealth, and the role of civil disobedience. Zinn’s approach is explicitly revisionist and political, treating independent thought and citizen action as necessary responses to entrenched public ideas. The essays provide a sustained challenge to conventional accounts of American power and democracy.
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- Readers interested in critical perspectives on 20th-century U.S. history and politics
- Those seeking essays on war, foreign policy, economic justice, and civil disobedience
- Fans of Howard Zinn’s historically grounded political writing
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War and peaceU.S. foreign policyEconomic inequalityDemocracy and dissentCivil disobedience
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Book Overview "A shotgun blast of revisionism that aims to shatter all the comfortable myths of American political discourse." -- Los Angeles TimesFrom...
"A shotgun blast of revisionism that aims to shatter all the comfortable myths of American political discourse." -- Los Angeles Times
From 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.
In these landmark essays, Zinn confronts these foundational beliefs head-on:
- Just and Unjust War: A provocative re-examination of warfare itself, questioning whether any war--even the 'good war' against fascism--can truly be called just in the modern era.
- U.S. Foreign Policy: A sharp critique of Machiavellian 'realism' and the deceptions used to justify American military interventions around the globe.
- The American Class System: An unsparing look at economic justice in the United States, exposing the myth of 'rugged individualism' and the long history of government aid for the rich.
- Civil Disobedience: A powerful argument for why true democracy requires citizens to go beyond the law and engage in direct action, from the abolitionists to the anti-war movement.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 368 | Language: English | Publisher: PERENNIAL | ISBN: 0060557672
FormatPaperback
Pages368
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0060557672
EAN9780060557676
PublisherPERENNIAL
Publication Date2003-06-17
EditionReprint
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.61 Pounds
Length8.02 Inches
Width5.31 Inches
Height0.85 Inches
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