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On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:11:38 -0500 [email protected] writes: > > > > The great irony in Mark's observation is that what > while Zinn was enormously popular he was never a > Marxist, unlike Foner. I don't want to start a > Paula-esque/Rosaist flame war over the dubious merits of > "A People's History." Howard Zinn had an enormously > influential career and is beloved by the American left. > His "Voices of a People's History" is of great merit > as a collection of source material which will enrich > the study of American history. He was, in many ways, > the Charles Beard of this era which is fitting > considering how of his work replicates Beard's approach. That's my impression of Zinn. As a historian, he was probably more Beardsian than Marxist. His work in many respects hearks back to the heyday of American Progressivism as represented by writers like Charles Beard, John Dewey, and Randolph Bourne. In one of his earlier books, *The Politics of History*, he wrote admiringly about those kinds of thinkers. > > It is equally true that it would be foolish in > the extreme consider criticism of his work to > be some kind of line of demarcation. That reeks > of a cult of personality that I sure he did not want. > > > ____________________________________________________________ Diet Help Cheap Diet Help Tips. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=R-Vk5WVICwpwF3-RXbNctwAAJ1BRugI4sJACAWmXIev8NAFPAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYQAAAAAA= ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
