{"id":240305,"date":"2010-01-28T03:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T08:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2010-01-28T03:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T08:44:23","slug":"howard-zinn-historian-activist-author-teacher-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/240305","title":{"rendered":"Howard Zinn: Historian, Activist, Author, Teacher, Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"

What an incredible lifetime of work. Reports the AP via the NY Times<\/a>:
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Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book A People\u2019s History of the United States<\/em> became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass. The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said.<\/p>\n

Published in 1980 with little promotion and a first printing of 5,000, A People\u2019s History<\/em> was, fittingly, a people\u2019s best-seller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth and reaching 1 million sales in 2003. Although Professor Zinn was writing for a general readership, his book was taught in high schools and colleges throughout the country, and numerous companion editions were published, including Voices of a People\u2019s History<\/em>, a volume for young people and a graphic novel.<\/p>\n

A People\u2019s History<\/em><\/a> told an openly left-wing story. Professor Zinn accused Christopher Columbus and other explorers of committing genocide, picked apart presidents from Andrew Jackson to Franklin D. Roosevelt and celebrated workers, feminists and war resisters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read More: AP via the NY Times<\/a><\/p>\n

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