Michael Froelich's chiding your editorial judgment for front-paging J.D. Salinger's obit and burying Howard Zinn's on the back page is timely.
As a retired Am Lit professor, I knew oodles about "Catcher" and nothing about Zinn, until my filmmaker son Michael recently touted Z's "People's History". And I have a Ph.D.in American Studies, with a dissertation on an American historian. Doesn't that tell you more than you want to know about our skewed values (at the top, not just the bottom.)
No wonder we're becoming the United States of Amnesia.
Patrick D. Hazard, Weimar, Germany
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