Zinnophobia offers an extended defense of the work of radical historian Howard Zinn, author of the bestselling A People’s History of the United States, against his many critics. It includes a discussion of the attempt to ban Zinn’s book from Indiana classrooms; a brief summary of Zinn’s life and work; an analysis of Zinn’s theorizing about bias and objectivity in history; and a detailed response to twenty-five of Zinn’s most hostile critics, many of whom are (or were) eminent historians. [Publisher’s description.]
Table of Contents
Preface • p. 1
Abbreviations • p. 8
Chapter 1: The Daniels-Zinn Controversy • p. 17
Assessing Daniels’s Claims and Arguments • p. 21
Chapter 2: Bias and Objectivity in History • p. 60
Who Was Howard Zinn? • p. 62
Anti-Americanism • p. 89
Bias • p. 96
Objectivity • p. 113
Chapter 3: Zinn’s Critics • p. 141
Sam Wineburg • p. 142
David Greenberg • p. 200
David J. Bobb • p. 235
Mary Grabar • p. 237
Eugene D. Genovese • p. 246
Robert Paquette • p. 251
David Horowitz • p. 271
Michael Kazin • p. 308
Daniel J. Flynn • p. 332
Oscar Handlin • p. 378
“frankly speaking” • p. 417
Michael Kammen • p. 419
The Editors of the National Review • p. 429
Rich Lowry • p. 433
Roger Kimball • p. 438
Jill Lepore • p. 451
Michael C. Moynihan • p. 453
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. • p. 474
Kevin Mattson • p. 480
Benno Schmidt • p. 482
Gabriel Schoenfeld • p. 484
Rick Shenkman • p. 489
The Weekly Standard • p. 492
Peter Wood • p. 495
Sean Wilentz • p. 502
Endnotes • p. 514
Index • p. 576
