'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 1-27-10 | Hillel Italie

[wac3rd]

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People's History of the United States" became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such celebrities as Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck, died Wednesday. He was 87.

Zinn died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, Calif., daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said. The historian was a resident of Auburndale, Mass.

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At a time when few politicians dared even call themselves liberal, "A People's History" told an openly left-wing story. Zinn charged Christopher Columbus and other explorers with genocide, picked apart presidents from Andrew Jackson to Franklin D. Roosevelt and celebrated workers, feminists and war resisters

[GeorgeSaden]

I think it was Brown’s win in Massachusetts that did it.

[Maelstorm]

Good riddence! This guy was just plain nuts.

[montag813]

I hope this traitorous piece of filth burns in hell.

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

At a time when few politicians dared even call themselves liberal, "A People's History" told an openly left-wing story.

No, when Zinn wrote his book liberals, progressives, and their "fellow-travelers" called themselves LIBERAL with impunity. It is only since their mauling in the 1994 elections that they have been looking for more "nuanced" ways to describe themselves.

[sergeantdave]

“American leftists are the world’s biggest enablers of genocidal murderers, criminal states, political torture, and warfare.”

I like the way you talk.

[Oratam]

"The evil that men do lives after them"

--Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

[PGalt]

American leftists are the world's biggest enablers of genocidal murderers, criminal states, political torture, and warfare.

BUMP!

[DeweyCA]

I once read a random page from this book on the library shelf. I read one or two paragraphs and quit in disgust. It made no attempt to be like a regular history book. It was pure leftist propaganda, and that is the most used history book in the USA. That really tells you a lot about the leftist teachers who force students to buy and read that garbage. Most college humanities courses exist only to indoctrinate the kids with anti-American hatred. Such a shame.

[Chode]

i hope you have a big dinner...

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

He lived in MA...now he can be represented again by Ded Kennedy (D-HELL)...

At least he lived long enough to see the election of Scott Brown and the beginning of the Tea Party counter-revolution.