Maybe the poster meant a book I have not read yet by Zinn, the
autobiographical looking one published last yr. I'd imagine he has a chapter
about his yrs. in the USAF during WWII.
  On radical historians btw, a great book of interviews which mix q's on
historiography with autobiography see, "Visions of History, " from Pantheon
sometime in the 80's from the editors of Radical History Review. Great
interviews with William A. Williams, Hobsbawm, Genovese, Woodward and
others.
                                                             Michael
Pugliese

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From: Norman Mikalac <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Monday, January 15, 2001 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] What limits should be placed on free speech?


>i'm reading Zinn's "History of the American People" now, but i didn't
>know he also wrote one about WWI and/or WWII.
>
>can someone tell the title(s)?
>
>thx, norm
>
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>> >>I have read leftist accounts of the causes of WWII, and I am reading
Zinn
>> >>now. That WWI was an imperialist war seems to be accepted among most
>> >>historians, or at least among most accounts I have read, and Zinn
states
>> >>this too. WWII in many ways was a direct result of WWI so analyzing the
>> >>causes of the later war is important. If WWI was imperialist and WWII
was
>> >>a result of WWI than one can say the fight against imperialism (and
>> >>nationalism) was and still is crucial. And further, Zinn states (p.350)
>> >>that WWI was needed to avert class war (at least in the US), and
probably
>> >>in Europe too. All of this is to say that class is primary, even in the
>> >>history of the two wars.
>> >>