| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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World of Ideas: Howard Zinn. Public Affairs Television, 2003. 55 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053; 800-257-5126; <custserv@films.com>; <www.films.com> [Sept. 13, 2004])

Bill Moyers's interview with the historian and activist Howard Zinn is at its best when autobiographical. The author of A People's History of the United States (1980), one of the most influential radical works of the past half century, remains, in his eighties, a warm and compelling observer and critic of social injustice and war. Moyers focuses considerable attention on the ways in which Zinn's World War II bombardier experiences shaped his postwar commitments. Zinn is at his best in describing how, at thirty thousand feet, one does not hear the screams of one's victims. His excoriation of modern warfare rests, for the most part, on its essential dehumanization, its killing at a distance. The story of his bombing runs over Rouen in France in the last days of the war, dropping "jellied gasoline" on defeated German soldiers without a qualm, only later to realize that he had been involved in the first use of napalm within the European theater, is particularly compelling.

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