Marxist Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” is being made into a major television series:
Zinn’s 1980 book influenced a generation of students with its negatively-framed distortions of American history which minimized successes like WWII. It exchanged traditional history for marginal topics such as Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Joan Baez and Angela Davis while omitting Washington’s Farewell Address, the Wright Brothers and the Normandy Invasion.
The December 10 Variety stated production begins in Boston this January. Ironically, it will use wealthy celebrities like Matt Damon, Danny Glover and Josh Brolin to convey the book’s Marxist theory (bold mine).
Excuse me while I throw up.
No doubt the next step will be using the film as “educational” material.
You know, for the morons who can’t be brainwashed by the text because they can’t read?
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More likely by the students who’d rather watch the TV series than read the book, more because they have no imagination and lack the ability to picture what is written than because they can’t read.
Shouldn’t they at least be equally indoctrinated by Paul Johnson’s “History of the American People”?
Regardless…ugh. This is disgusting and obnoxious.
Odd point — for a “major television series” — no network has yet agreed to purchase it. (follow through your links to the original Variety article)
Lots of dreck gets made. Not much of it actually airs.
I’m all for equal time for indoctrination. Points of view should be presented as points of view and opposite points of view offered.
I hope they never make it though.
Ick. Doesn’t television already document mini-trends and trivial events obsessively enough?
Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky. Rope. Tall tree.
Some assembly required.
I understand that Zinn’s book is the most widely used text on American history in American secondary schools.
How does something like that happen, when you don’t even know about it until it’s a fait accompli? Am I the only one who showed up for the game in the 9th inning?
There’s a niche for ‘The Conspiracy Channel’, maybe two, one just to handle UFOs and Bigfoot, the other dedicated to big-picture things.
Do you think someone could counter this homage to Zinn by putting together a show based on Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s A Patriot’s History of the United States? Would it be more accurate than one based on Zinn’s book?