[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Pop-Gun Attack on Stone/Kuznick's “Untold History of the United States”

[C. G. Estabrook]

> Counterpunch Weekend Edition February 15-17, 2013
> Sean Wilentz's Pop-Gun Attack on Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
> Post-Modernist Red-Baiting
> by LOUIS PROYECT
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> It was only a matter of time before the N.Y. Review of Books launched an ideological drone strike against Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s “Untold History of the United States”. And who better to sit behind the control panel directing the missile than Sean Wilentz, who aspires to be the Arthur Schlesinger Jr. of our generation.
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> In its early years the NYR featured Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal and even ran a famous article by Andrew Kopkind backing Chairman Mao’s dictum that “morality, like politics, flows from the barrel of a gun”–accompanied by David Levine’s marvelous do-it-yourself diagram of a Molotov cocktail on its cover.
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> As the magazine’s editors grew older and more attuned to the needs of the permanent government, it found new causes and new contributors to promote them. Chief among the causes was the superiority of capitalism to socialism and America’s duty to resist any challenges to the global status quo. More and more the NYR began to occupy the ideological niche once held by Encounter, the journal edited by Melvin J. Lasky and funded by the CIA...
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> full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/15/post-modernist-red-baiting/