Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology

by Howard Zinn

  27 This was a pol taken by the Al ensbach Institute. New York Times, Jan. 21, 1988.

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  28 This example is cited by Russel Hardin, "Contracts, Promises and Arms Control," Bul etin of Atomic Scientists (Oct. 1984). Hardin cal s the Kennedy unilateral initiative an example of

  "contract by convention," which he thinks is much preferable to endless negotiation.

  29 Walter Clemens, "US and USSR: An Agenda for a New Detente," Christian Science

  Monitor, Mar. 21, 1985.

  30 Sivard, World Military and Social Expenditures 1987-88, 22.

  31 Leonard Bernstein, "War Is Not Inevitable," Fel owship (Jan.-Feb. 1981).

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  Document Outline

  OneIntroduction: American Ideology

  TwoMachiavellian Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Means and Ends

  ThreeViolence and Human Nature

  FourThe Use and Abuse of History

  FiveJust and Unjust War

  SixLaw and Justice

  SevenEconomic Justice: The American Class System

  EightFree Speech: Second Thoughts on the First Amendment

  NineRepresentative Government: The Black Experience

  TenCommunism and Anti-communism

  ElevenThe Ultimate Power