Howard Zinn, United States social historian and author of A People's History of the United States, explores the historical distortions which underlie textbooks used to educate Americans. The fundamental error is the depiction of the United States as a benign world power. This view results in a depolitized population and the creation of a passive citizenry.|UNITED STATES HISTORY TEXBOOKS : HISTORICAL DISTORTION / Howard Zinn| interviewed by Jeff Hansen. - Howard Zinn, United States social historian and author of A People's History of the United States, explores the historical distortions which underlie textbooks used to educate Americans. The fundamental error is the depiction of the United States as a benign world power. This view results in a depolitized population and the creation of a passive citizenry. - RECORDED: 9 Dec. 1988.
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