Re: And the Worst Book of History Is …
Madeleine Maudlin
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 08:54:51 CDT 2012
"....But Mr. Zinn’s Marxist-inflected account of American history
provoked...."
Marxist-inflected, hm, I like that. I like the sound of that. Inflected.
Flect.
Who is this inflection, Jennifer Scheussler?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:34 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/and-the-worst-book-of-history-is/
>
> The political direction of the country may be up for grabs until
> November, but the right has scored an interim victory — if that’s the
> word — in a weeklong contest to determine “the least credible history
> book in print” just concluded by the History News Network.
>
> After a week of voting by readers, David Barton’s “The Jefferson Lies”
> won with some 650 votes, narrowly edging the left-wing historian
> Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States,” which received
> 641 votes.
>
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