The Politics of History — This paperback bestseller presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian’s role. In a new introduction written for this edition, Howard Zinn responds to critics of the 1970 edition and comments further on the radicalization of history. [Publisher’s description.]
Published by Beacon Press, 1971; University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Previous Editions
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition • p. xi
Introduction to the First Edition • p. 1
PART ONE • APPROACHES • p. 5
1) Knowledge as a Form of Power • p. 5
2) History as Private Enterprise • p. 15
3) What ls Radical History? • p. 35
PART TWO • ESSAYS IN AMERICAN HISTORY • p. 57
CLASS:
4) Inequality • p. 57
5) The Ludlow Massacre • p. 79
6) LaGuardia in the Jazz Age • p. 102
7) The Limits of the New Deal • p. 118
RACE:
8) Abolitionists and the Tactics of Agitation • p. 137
9) Psychoanalyzing the Dissenter: Two Cases • p. 153
10) Liberalism and Racism • p. 167
11) Albany, Georgia, and the New Frontier • p. 179
NATIONALISM
12) Aggressive Liberalism • p. 195
13) Vietnam: The Moral Equation • p. 209
14) The Prisoners: A Bit of Contemporary History • p. 223
15) Violence: The Double Standard • p. 237
16) Hiroshima and Royan • p. 250
PART THREE • THEORY AND PRAXIS • p. 275
17) Freedom and Responsibility • p. 275
18) The Historians • p. 288
19) The Philosophers • p. 320
20) Philosophers, Historians, and Causation • p. 352
Notes • p. 369
Index • p. 380
