Re: And the Worst Book of History Is …

[Prashant Kumar]

Sorry I'm experimenting with being guileless. Yes I was serious.

On 20 July 2012 00:22, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wai, sorry, were you asking me seriously?  My knee-jerk reaction was that
> you were implying something by your question--
>
> 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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