Eichmann in Jerusalem or Howard Zinn on Democratic Education

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Author: Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.

Michael A. Musmanno

There will be those who wonder how Miss Arendt, after attending the Eichman trial and studying the record and pertinent material, could announce, as she solemnly does in this book, that Eichman was not really a Nazi at heart, that he did really not know Hilter's program when he joined the party, that the Gestapo were helpful to the Jews in Palestinian immigration, that Himmler (Himmler!) had a sense of pity, that the Jewish gas-killing program grew out of Hitler's euthanasia program and that, all in all, Eichmann was really a modest man.-- Books of the Century; New York Times

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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative)

Author: Howard Zinn

Perhaps no other historian has had a more profound and revolutionary impact on American education than Howard Zinn. This is the first book devoted to his views on education and its role in a democratic society.

Howard Zinn on Democratic Education describes what is missing from school textbooks and in classrooms - and how we move beyond these deficiencies to improve student education. Critical skills of citizenship are insufficiently developed in schools, according to Zinn. Textbooks and curricula must be changed to transcend the recitation of received wisdom too common today in our schools. In these respects, recent Bush Administration and educational policies of most previous presidents have been on the wrong track in meeting educational needs.

This book seeks to redefine national goals at a time when public debates over education have never been more polarized — nor higher in public visibility and contentious debate.

Table of Contents:

1	Apparatus of lies USA : introduction	1
2	Schools and the manufacture of mass deception : a dialogue	27
3	A people's history of the United States	67
4	How free is higher education?	87
5	Columbus and western civilization	97
6	Grey matters interviews Howard Zinn	123
7	Being left : growing up class-conscious	137
8	What Bush's war on terror is all about	157
9	The diverted left	163
10	A campaign without class	167
11	Federal bureau of intimidation	175
12	Why students should study history : an interview	187