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Indlæser... Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History? and Other Questionsaf Harvey J. Kaye
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I found the first section to be the weakest. Even though I agreed with almost everything Kaye wrote his attacks were, at times, to personal to be effective and may have elicited sympathy rather than the contempt the actors under discussion deserved. The last two sections were much stronger.
The national standards for humanities education developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the direction of Lynne Cheney but released during the Clinton administration are a frequent topic in these sections. Cheney chose Kaye to take part in the earliest stages of development of the standards and we learn of his early misgivings about the process. The lack of involvement in public discourse by any actual left leaning academics is a frequent theme but over all there is more breast beating and navel gazing than problem solving to be found here on that topic.
Overall the book was worthwhile. It is very informative about the “Culture Wars” of the 1980s and 1990s and enlightening on why the radical right was so successful. They were unopposed. ( )