Re: And the Worst Book of History Is …

[Madeleine Maudlin]

What's it sound like I meant?


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Prashant Kumar <
siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you mean by the last line, Madeleine?
>
>
> On 19 July 2012 23:54, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> "....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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