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It all changes when two things happen (and three new people come into his life: a college girl, a famous math professor, and an underachieving [[therapist|shrink]]).

It all changes when two things happen (and three new people come into his life: a college girl, a famous math professor, and an underachieving [[therapist|shrink]]).

The film was particularly notable for single-handedly making [[Howard Zinn]]'s anti-American textbook ''A People's History of the United States'' widespread and required reading for high school and university-level history courses, due to Matt Damon's character telling Robin William's character "You wanna read a ''real'' history book, read Howard Zinn’s ''People’s History of the United States''. That book’ll f**kin’ knock you on your ass.”

The film was particularly notable for single-handedly making [[Howard Zinn]]'s anti-American textbook ''A People's History of the United States'' widespread and required reading for high school and university-level history courses, due to Matt Damon's character telling Robin William's character "You wanna read a ''real'' history book, read Howard Zinn’s ''People’s History of the United States''. That book’ll f**kin’ knock you on your ass.” Before then, it was only read by a minority of people and not known by anyone save for subscribers to the left-wing Socialist magazine ''The Nation''.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/8/9/the-5-most-destructive-political-ideas-in-matt-damons-movies/5/</ref>

 

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