A People's History of the United States

Books a joke. Remember that scene in Goodwill Hunting. Hey Howard Zinn Howard Zinn yeah sure.

And a good early example of that is from Howard Zinn, his People's History of the United States.

to put to put Carl's experiencing context maybe this is in the late 1970s one of Carl's colleagues at the time was Howard Zinn who famously wrote a people's history of the United States published in 1980 you know John Silver who was the president of B.W. at the time this sort of no nonsense no nonsense Texan of conservative Presbyterian roots he didn't have the best relationship with Howard Zinn either he would deny the Marxist as he called him sabbaticals promotions and pay raises and you know Silver was no fan of the anti-war movement or revolutionaries and the idea of you know aligning the psychedelic gospels of enlightenment from Tim Leary and others with this with this anti-war movement was not was not welcome on campus in the late 70s or to suspect that a faculty member was going to introduce students to drugs which was of course not anywhere in the realm of possibility right but there I guess there's that the what would you say the uncertain consequence of taking this sort of hypothesis seriously right which is an uncertain there are uncertain consequences it's a very damage proposition because it opens up to the possibility that religious experience or spiritual realities are a part of our basic nature as humans

He actually says in a people's history of the United States that the American victory over Nazism was marred by the fact that America took Nazism into its bones, took fascism in, I mean he says this in his book, America took all of the lessons of the Nazis and integrated them, right?

I actually read it before my brother told me about that book and then I saw it mentioned in Goodwill hunting.

A long time ago. I read that People's History of the United States, which was just way on the other side I was just like this is what really happened man, George, Washington Everybody loves him that guy had his fucking dick out man

You're supposed to read a people's history of the United States Memorize it and then do that globally before you can go out and start dropping references and shit

I read it was really good.

I'm sure she wrote it herself.

Elizabeth Warren like no way. I know just no way.

There's that old communist Howard Zins, a people's history of the United States.

There's that there's that story in the Howard Zinn book the people's history where it's like the I don't know if it's the Spaniards or whatever it is But a Spaniard just like cut someone's throat and like the natives are just like oh fuck.

And by the way it was not a direct response to Howard Zinn's people's history

Did you ever read the book, A People's History? I think it's by Howard Zinn. It's on my list because I think...

Isn't that the left-leaning take on the history?

It's a left-leaning take, but man, does he write... It's a good book. I'll have to check it out.

I'm thinking of like Daniel Walker house book that he wrote for Oxford on the history of the United States during that time period when he covers you know the book of Mormon and he says look you know true or not this is an impressive literary work right but but he doesn't really attempt to try to tell his readers where he thinks it actually came from