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Article: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress.(Book review)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Howard Zinn, City Lights Books, 287 pages, $16.95.
FOR A RADICAL HISTORIAN, Howard Zinn certainly enjoys considerable mainstream success. Defying convention, Zinn's A People's History of the United States has surpassed the million-seller mark, a milestone usually reserved for works of a more bourgeois slant. The leftist activist has a mass appeal that would make David McCullough envious.
Part of this appeal no doubt stems from Zinn's lucid writing style and his ability to casually spin historical tales, almost as if his radicalism were just another popular suburban political worldview. A People's History doesn't ...