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by elefanten 2107 days ago
It seems like the spirit of your comment is in accord with GP. GGP put forth that Zinn is "the truth."

GP may have phrased it a bit dismissively but I read that comment as making the same argument you do: no given history book contains the final truth.

As for GP's comment that Zinn has no place today -- you offer a more nuanced take. But we're in a moment replete with valorizing paeans to Zinn (like TFA) and calls for using People's History more widely as a _textbook_. Maybe, given that we are 40 years on from it's writing, that's not the best move.