I don't know about Santorum, and was not quoting anything he said. What I was quoting was what I was told by my liberal professors of humanities parents. I don't know Santorum from Adam, but I know my parents quite well, and I'm fairly certain that they would not have lied to me about the importance of this book in modern academia, in as much as they held Zinn in high esteem.Dadtodabone wrote:Ah, Zinn. Even the flaming red socialists at Harvard and Stanford agree that his book is revisionist claptrap. It's not a textbook, it's a trade book. At best it's been used by half a dozen universities as survey material, not as a textbook. Not a single state in the Union lists it as an approved textbook for secondary education.The Annoyed Man wrote:A bigger culprit than Alinsky is a "historian" by the name of Howard Zinn, who wrote "A People's History Of The United States". That book has been accepted as THE standard for teaching American History to college students, and it was written by a man who completely, down to his bones, hated the United States of America.Abraham wrote:Leftist professors are Saul Alinsky acolytes...making certain students remain unschooled in American history and hateful toward Capitalism and the Constitution.
A four year degree from almost any university is laughable.
Those who earn degrees in science aren't exposed as much, but sadly, they're still exposed to some of this poison.
Yes, I know that Sen. Santorum made some political hay with his remarks at the NRA national meetings last year. They were, regrettably, not strictly accurate.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... -history-/
Also, regarding high school, I would not have even thought of that application. But your response prompted me to look at the listing for it on Amazon.com, just because I wanted to verify the copyright date, and lo and behold, here is the first review on the list of reviews:
It may not be listed as an approved book by any single state in the union for secondary education, but it is being used none the less for that purpose.1,146 of 1,269 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 starsA teacher of American History's POV
By Amazon Customer on February 1, 2000
Format: Hardcover
For several years of the last decade, I taught Advanced Placement U.S. History at a high school in northern Virginia. When I began the course, Zinn had already been assigned by my predecessor, and I needed a counterpoint to the main text (Bailey and Kennedy's bombastic, traditionalist, and short-on-social history "Pageant of the American Nation"). Zinn's deftly written book provided a fortunate antithesis to the "march of presidents and industrial titans" approach to American history. I found many chapters of this book to be such excellent stimulants to class discussions that I extended their use into my non-AP U.S. history classes, where students, many of whom could not otherwise have cared less about history, found themselves reading an interesting and provocative historian for the first time in their lives. Many of the best discussions I ever had with my classes (both AP and "regular") began with assigned chapters from Zinn. From there, it was an easy step to move on to the idea of historiography (the history of how history has been interpreted) and to decoupling my students from thinking of the textbook as revealed wisdom.