Howard Zinn Becomes History

Yahoo / Reuters ^ | 28 Jan 2010 | Yahoo / Reuters

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Activist, historian Howard Zinn dies at 87 Reuters

By Ros Krasny

BOSTON (Reuters) – Historian and activist Howard Zinn, whose 1980 book "A People's History of the United States" was a rallying cry for the American left in a conservative era, has died aged 87.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100128/us_nm/us_zinn_1

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Zinn's perspective is very widespread, unfortunately. I encounter educated, thirty-somethings who buy into his victim/oppressor worldview. We have much to overcome.

[Tijeras_Slim]

ping

[WOBBLY BOB]

Zinn meets dustbin ping.

[EyeGuy]

“Historian and activist, Howard Zinn....”

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Ummmm. No.

Anti-American propagandist and communist activist, Howard Zinn.

[Lakeshark]

I've met a lot of young folks who quote his book.

I then get to tell them I took classes with him and let them know what a strange man he was. He would come to class stoned, and there were lots of stories about sleeping with coeds for grades. It's fun to talk with the kids, the shock on their faces is incredible.......

[Tzimisce]

So here we have another upper middle class/wealthy Communist getting paid six figures to lecture us about how we should all be poor nobodies.

And no one seems to see the irony.

[dancusa]

RIP Zinn. Meet Beezlebub, your maker.

[ohiobuckeye1997]

Another commie bites the dust....was forced to read this POS in college....good riddance.

[stop_fascism]

The world is a slightly better place. Now, if only his nasty little book could be buried with him...

[epluribus_2]

NPR eulogized him like Mother Theresa. Ended with a quote concluding “Socialism must be... Good.”

[bronxville]

He won’t be missed unfortunately he’s left some entrails in his wake.

[Deb]

Seeing this on the morning ticker scroll, I actually breathed a sigh of relief. Unfortunately, he lived long enough to defile history for generations.

[DPMD]

So far, 2010 is looking pretty good: Scott Brown, obits for health care, Zinn.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I suppose he is high fiving his idols—Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, et. al., and is complaining about the temperature and the smell of sulphur.

[IronJack]

Although the damage is done, the world is still a little safer for his passing.

May the future make no note of either his life or his death.

[CougarGA7]

I cant think of another modern author who more blatantly wrote history with a political agenda than Howard Zinn. His was such an extreme to even give revisionists a bad name. It has inspired me though to take care that I am always as objective as possible in my writing.

87 is a good run though.

[brooklin]

I read one of his books. I found it entertaining. Good fiction. Kind of like listening to Coast to Coast.
Glad he’s gone

[LS]

No tears shed in this house.

[steamroller]

Too bad this piece of garbage lasted so long.

[BatGuano]

Another Commie bastard dead. How nice of him to leave, as his legacy, his vile view of America and his influence on people who do not use their brains accepting what they hear on NPR and the crap written by communists who wish our nation ill. Good Riddance is too kind to say about this jerk.