INSCRIBED. Dark blue cloth, lettered in silver foil. 2nd ptg. Former owner's signature/date inked on upper front flyleaf, minor foxing to endpapers and text block edges, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf, full signature, personalized, dated 1994. ix,341 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.

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Title

Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology [INSCRIBED]

Publisher

HarperCollins

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0060164735

ISBN 13

9780060164737

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Inscribed by Author(s)

Book Type

Book

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Offers an astringent portrait of American ideologies, and explains how these truths and constitutional guarantees have been flouted by government agencies

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In these informal, challenging essays that link the personal to the political, Zinn ( A People's History of the United States ) aims to shake complacency, to challenge what he calls "American orthodoxies" or received opinions about history and government. He charges that Machiavellian tactics have dominated policies of presidents in their pursuit of "national security interests." Calling the American economic system "shamefully wasteful and unjust," the Boston University political scientist urges a "real war on poverty" and on pollution, a turnaround in national priorities away from massive military spending. Recognition that the Soviet Union is a police state, he believes, should not lead us to embrace "fanatical anticommunism" or to justify the U.S. government's control over other countries. He argues that there are no just wars, accuses the major media of slavishness to government-business control and knocks social theories that resort to "human nature" to explain war and class inequities.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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