As Michael Moynihan pointed out in Reason magazine, much of the incoming fire comes from Zinn’s more intellectually credible comrades on the left. Sean Wilentz describes Zinn’s work as “balefully influential.” Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. called him “a polemicist, not a historian.” The New Republic recently ran a review of a biography of Zinn under the headline “Agit-Prof.” Even the aforementioned Michael Kazin believes Zinn “essentially reduced the past to a Manichean fable.”
Daniels vs. Zinn | National Review Online
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