Zinnophobia
The Battle Over History in Education, Politics, and Scholarship
Published on 28. September 2018
600 pages
978-1-78535-679-7 (ISBN)
Description
Zinnophobia offers an extended defense of the work of radical historian Howard Zinn, author of the bestselling A People's History of the United States, against his many critics. It includes a discussion of the attempt to ban Zinn's book from Indiana classrooms; a brief summary of Zinn's life and work; an analysis of Zinn's theorizing about bias and objectivity in history; and a detailed response to twenty-five of Zinn's most hostile critics, many of whom are (or were) eminent historians. 'A major contribution to bringing Zinn's great contributions to even broader public attention, and exposing features of intellectual and political culture that are of no little interest.' Noam Chomsky
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
2,29 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78535-679-7 (9781785356797)
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Person
David Detmer is a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Northwest, and the author of several books including Freedom as a Value, winner of the Choice 'Outstanding Academic Books' award in Philosophy. Detmer is currently Executive Editor of the journal Sartre Studies International. He lives in Munster, Indiana, USA.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: The Daniels-Zinn Controversy
- Assessing Daniels's Claims and Arguments
- Chapter 2: Bias and Objectivity in History
- Who Was Howard Zinn?
- Anti-Americanism
- Bias
- Objectivity
- Chapter 3: Zinn's Critics
- Sam Wineburg
- David Greenberg
- David J. Bobb
- Mary Grabar
- Eugene D. Genovese
- Robert Paquette
- David Horowitz
- Michael Kazin
- Daniel J. Flynn
- Oscar Handlin
- "frankly speaking"
- Michael Kammen
- The Editors of the National Review
- Rich Lowry
- Roger Kimball
- Jill Lepore
- Michael C. Moynihan
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Kevin Mattson
- Benno Schmidt
- Gabriel Schoenfeld
- Rick Shenkman
- The Weekly Standard
- Peter Wood
- Sean Wilentz
- Endnotes
