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11 March, 10:04

Which of the following expresses an accurate critique of Peter Irons' scholarship?

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    Due to poverty Peter Iron unable to pay tuition for College that is why he became a person who takes part in an organized attempt to influence legislators for the United Auto Workers in Washington D. C. He is also involved in the increasing movement against the Vietnam War while working at the Union.

    Iron was convicted and sentenced for three years because he returned his draft card to Selective Service. However, he completed his undergraduate studies while waiting for his appeal to be decided. After few months he became imprisoned because he lost his appeal.

    In prison, Irons found the books of Howard Zinn, a Boston College Professor who wrote about race, and the Vietnam War. He admired about Zinn's intellectual, and he began to agree with Zinn. During Iron’s trial eligibility approached, he favorably asked Zinn to send him a graduate school application. Zinn replied, clarifying that Irons had been granted to the doctoral program in political science at Boston College with a full scholarship.

    Irons was released as a prisoner in February 1969 and begun graduate school the day after his release.

    After finishing law school in 1978, Irons taught at Boston College Law School and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Law and Society Program. He was invited surprisingly by the University of California, San Diego to apply for a political science professorship and he was then get hired so quickly. He even founded the Earl Warren Civil Rights Project at UC San Diego in 1982.
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