Howard Zinn

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “Howard Zinn, Historian, Dies at 87” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/28zinn.html


米国左翼の長老で歴史学者ハワード・ジン氏が死去。享年87歳。
絶筆となったオバマ政権評価を巡る箇所を切り取っておく;


One of Professor Zinn’s last public writings was a brief essay, published last week in The Nation, about the first year of the Obama administration.

I’ve been searching hard for a highlight,” he wrote, adding that he wasn’t disappointed because he never expected a lot from President Obama.

“I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.”

なお、http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20050819で、ハワード・ジンのテクスト*1に言及している。