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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Main Author: Detmer, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.
Physical Description:ix, 584 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781785356780
178535678X