Howard Zinn and the Book That Poisoned a Generation
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🗓️ 20 November 2021
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| 0:26.2 | The writer of the most popular and influential history book of the last quarter century |
| 0:30.8 | was a radical leftist professor who despised his subject. |
| 0:35.5 | The writer's name is Howard Zinn, and his subject is America. |
| 0:40.0 | Zinn died in 2010, but his toxic theme lives on. |
| 0:45.1 | America is and has always been a cesspool of racism, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation. |
| 0:53.5 | You may never have heard of Zinn, but I assure you a history teacher at your local high school |
| 0:59.3 | or college has, and probably teaches his texts or ideas. |
| 1:05.0 | The book Zinn wrote is entitled A People's History of the United States. |
| 1:10.4 | If you're trying to understand why so many young people lack patriotism or worse regard |
| 1:16.1 | America with contempt, you don't have to look much further than Zinn. |
| 1:21.1 | Where did the idea that Columbus was evil come from? |
| 1:24.9 | Lincoln wasn't really interested in freeing the slaves. |
| 1:28.0 | The Allies weren't any better than the Nazis and the Japanese in World War II. |
| 1:32.8 | The Vietnam War was not about stopping the spread of communism, but about promoting |
| 1:37.4 | American imperialism? |
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