The People's History & the Cold War

[Paul Mackin]

On 12/21/2011 9:58 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>> Well, the lady ain't said nothing yet, re: Zinn, not really
> Just clouds, but the gentleman sees a whale and doth protesteth too
> much, methinks, and in so doing doth not so much see design wherein
> none is but fails to see the double design of the lady's true love.
> Zinn does nothin what aint been done
> overmuchandbymanybeforehimandbetter. Tis sad that it has come to this;
> the humanities in tatters and rags, strewn like leaves of grass over
> dead white men and dead white Others, but that is war and all is fare
> is fowl when flies find vanity in a pile that trips to the bar and
> slurs her goodnight dear gentlemen...godbuy and goodnight.
> Ale is all the stuff to drink
> you poets
> her story is bunk.
>
What about the argument that People's History's easy-to-read style and 
clear-cut demarcation between good and evil make the book something high 
school students or college freshmen might actually be induced to read, 
whereas otherwise they would never read a book with history in the title 
at all?  (history majors excluded of course)

P