Zinnophobia : the battle over history in education, politics, and scholarship /
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'...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Winchester, UK ; Washington, D.C. :
Zero Books,
2018.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 584 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781785356780 178535678X |