Radical Activist
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Thu Jan-06-05 11:20 PM
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Poll question: To what degree do you admire Howard Zinn |
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He's on the Daily Show now!
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Smarmie Doofus
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Thu Jan-06-05 11:34 PM
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1. The Logic of Withdrawal... read it in , maybe, 1969. |
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About VN. ( That's Zinn, right?)
I would have been in 9th grade. Changed my perspective... though,truth be told it would have changed anyway.
Few years later I saw him a couple times on the BU campus. Once on a picket line protesting... either the USMC recruiters or kooky-krazzy university president, John Silber.
Anyway the answer is..." to a great degree."
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Thu Jan-06-05 11:46 PM
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2. He's an important historian... |
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... if only for giving a perspective to American history largely absent from the public-school textbook version of that history.
He gets high marks from me for having his heart in the right place, and for seeing the events of his lifetime with the same scepticism of government that Jefferson advocated of all citizens.
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