Nash, a leftish historian, supporter of the Angela Davis support comm. in the early 70's, was regarded by some parents in the Berkeley public schools, insufficiently radical, even racist, when his multicultural textbook was adopted by the district in the 80's.A book that would have burned in the Kanawha County Textbook struggle in West Virginia in the late 70's as a, "New World Order, Atheist, Communistic, " indoctrination text. -- Michael Pugliese