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Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of "the Good War"
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5373
EAN: 9781887128452
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 188712845X
Label: Soft Skull Press
Manufacturer: Soft Skull Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 220
Publication Date: 2000-06
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Studio: Soft Skull Press
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Editorial Review:
Providing a refreshing look at right-wing propaganda and revisionist history in America, this book challenges the basic assumptions about World War II that have long been taken as fact. Viewing the "good war" from a global economic and political perspective, Michael Zezima argues that the major world powers were not fighting over moral rectitude, but over the biggest share of world production, raw materials, labor, and industries.
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Rating:  - Saving Private Power - Nothing new here
This book attempts to expose the hidden history of the "Good War" however it fails to do this in multiple ways. First it pretends to present new data, yet most of the information that Mickey Z uses has been in the public domain for 20-30 years, anybody with access to a public library could have read about it.
Instead of getting rid of the myths he is guilt of repeating them instead whenever they agree with his political angle. His first point is that people think that America entered ... Read More
Rating:  - Wow
A must-read as the US begins yet another "good war" in Iraq.
Rating: - Zezima's Conclusions are the same as My own Research
I am using a letter that I wrote to a Harvard author as the basis of my unequivocal support and applause to Zezima for his non-Orwellian summation of the history of World War II. I base my 5 star rating on this letter as it includes many of the best sources of information upon which I base this outstanding rating. These sources can serve as a guide to anyone who wishes to do the background research of Zezima's conclusions themselves (along with Zezima's references in the back of his book).
MY ... Read More
Rating:  - A Fresh but Not So Subtly Biased History of the "Good War"
Michael Z 's shattering of myths surrounding the Second World War in Saving Private Power is a fresh alternative to the 'feel good' interpretation of the war provided most recently by the likes of Spielberg, Brokaw and Ambrose. However, Mr. Z falls into the same trap as the capitalist/imperialist/racist opponents he rails against; Z himself has become a propaganda tool of his own communist ideology.
Saving Private Power reads less like a serious historical work and more like an official history ... Read More
Rating:  - Good antidote to Spielberg's flagwaving exercise
From its Hitler-satire book cover to the book jacket photos of Mr. Zezima in his bandana, the Gex-X nature of his book is evident. However, as to serving its stated purpose - an antidote to the flag-waving exercise of Saving Private Ryan - the books works admirably. As Howard Zinn and others have made clear, nearly all war movies are anti-war movies, but though Spielberg brought gore to the big screen as never before, it was ultimately a pro-war movie. Being an American Jew, we must consider Speilberg's ... Read More
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