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Old 01-27-2010, 09:43 PM
Skippy Skippy is offline
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Initial reaction: Who?

After reading:

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Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts...
Most of the mainstream texts are already slanted to the left. Why would you want something even more biased?

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In a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, Professor Zinn acknowledged that he was not trying to write an objective history, or a complete one.
I admire his honesty.
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