He clearly came to class stoned quite often. He always had an escort of a couple of the best looking young women in his class, it was said they always got high grades and weren't all that smart, trading sex for those grades.
The man could not argue his way out of a paper bag if challenged.
I remember one of my daughters friends talking about Howard Zinn's wonderful historical work. When I told him what the guy was actually like, he turned beet red.
The idea that he has the most read "history book" in the US is appalling......
It is indeed appalling
Just curious: what college was that?
IIRC, I saw Zinn on a PBS American history documentary series, which was based on his textbook. He commented on it, and may have even narrated it. Of course, since it was on PBS, it was partly financed by federal taxpayer dollars.