Kazin

As for the Kazin article, Kazin is a great historian, but that review is really off base.

Matthew Yglesias » A People’s History of the United States 2010

Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, the preeminent chroniclers of the Sixties, conclude that “Nothing changed so profoundly in the United States during the 1960s as American religion.”

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Alfred Kazin and Lionel Trilling , neither one a fan of Goodman's theoretical writings, confessed to a secret envy over his "scandalous reputation."

Paul Goodman: Recounting Forgotten Man on the Attack Richard B. Woodward 2011

Kazin calls Zinn names, but never proves his points except in that sort of “I know better, so just trust me” way.

Matthew Yglesias » A People’s History of the United States 2010

For a dollar or two, I was privileged to look over the shoulders of the intelligentsia of the day – Lionel Trilling, Stephen Spender, Hannah Arendt, Alfred Kazin et al – as they went at one another over important issues such as the Eichmann trial and/or more trivial pursuits as to who slept with whom on a particular Bloomsbury weekend or who was still a Stalinist after the purge trials of 1937.

John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website 2012

He doesn't rate a single mention in Michael Kazin 's "American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation," and the Library of America chose not to include his writings in its canonical series.

Paul Goodman: Recounting Forgotten Man on the Attack Richard B. Woodward 2011

Hey, why don't you check out Michael Kazin's latest article, "Labor Needs More Than Labor: How a workers' movement at Georgetown University provides a template for the future of American labor"?

HUFFPOST HILL - House Passes Anti-Union Bill Eliot Nelson 2011

This book has inspired thousands of activists and even budding academics who read his book and then went on to do history more akin to the way Kazin believes it ought to be done.

Matthew Yglesias » A People’s History of the United States 2010

Hey, why don't you check out Michael Kazin's latest article, "Labor Needs More Than Labor: How a workers' movement at Georgetown University provides a template for the future of American labor"?

HUFFPOST HILL - House Passes Anti-Union Bill Eliot Nelson 2011

I remember reading that essay when it appeared, and thinking, What has Kazin personally got against Zinn?

Matthew Yglesias » A People’s History of the United States 2010