Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
You have just announced plans to develop, produce, and distribute a feature film, plus a four-hour mini-series, based on Howard Zinn’s bestseller “A People’s History of the United States.”
In 2002, Howard Zinn wrote a glowing endorsement of the book “Discovering America As It Is”, by Valdas Anelauskas.
Anelauskas has referred to himself as being a “white separatist and racialist”. In 2006, he gave a talk during which he made the comment, “There’s a lot of truth in Mein Kampf…”.
Anelauskas has given a series of talks for a group called the Pacifica Forum, which made headlines is 2007 for scheduling a two-day Holocaust denial conference on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
Zinn wrote of Anelauskas’ book:
“This is an extraordinary book, especially startling not because it is a diligently researched and scathing critique of contemporary America, but because it is written by a Soviet dissident who arrived here with great expectations and discovered a sobering reality. The scope of the book is breathtaking, a sweeping survey, factually precise and philosophically provocative, which deserves to be compared to de Tocqueville’s 19th century classic. I hope it will be widely read.”
Do you feel comfortable continuing on with your project, knowing that Zinn endorsed the work of an acknowledged anti-Semitic, white separatist?
Best,
David
http://www.bookmasters.com/clarity/b0015.htm
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/44328.html
