Re: And the Worst Book of History Is …

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Oh god, the guiless, no wonder you confused me.

What was I on about?  Oh, well she called Zinn a Marxist inflector, and it
just sounded sorta snobby, like tooty-fruity fantsy-pants, like one of
those moments you catch the Times showing it's true colors, a work about
the people? must be Marxist-inflected propaganda, all lies, nothing like
what we kickass journalists here at the Times produce, nothing inflected
here, no inflections, we don't inflect anything, nope.

It's inflectious.

Speaking of Syria, what if all that was happening in Uraguay?


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Prashant Kumar <
siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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