Here’s David Greenberg on Howard Zinn.
Here’s Michael Kazin, from a few years back, on Howard Zinn.
I’m on deadline at the moment, but I’d like to write something about this later. In the meantime, I’m linking these reviews as a placeholder.
Ari Kelman
Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History at the University of California, Davis
Tim Lacy also did a good series on Zinn over at USIH. Oddly, the only thing I’ve ever read by Zinn was about archives and activism.
Boy, that Greenberg hatchet job actually ended with me more sympathetic to Zinn — whose scholarship I fully believe was shoddy and partisan — than I was when I started the piece. Was there some sort of bad blood between them, either personal or ideological? (I don’t recognize Greenberg’s name.)
Sorry, that was in reply to you, bjs.
No, Greenberg and Zinn are of entirely different generations. Greenberg is approximately my age — mid 40s — whereas Zinn, were he still alive, would be 90ish.
Wow, boojumsnark is 100% right, and I’m only partway through. Shorter paragraph on WWII: A-bomb, schmay-bomb. Zinn was history’s greatest pansy-assed, anti-Semitic monster.
Look forward to your critique.