Howard Zinn (American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker)
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- Date of birth
- 1922-08-24
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Date of death
- 2010-01-27
- Place of death
- Santa Monica
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Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.
Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist." He wrote extensively about the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press, 1994), was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work. Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, at the age of 87.
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Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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A People’s History of the United States (fifth Perennial paperback printing) | Paperback | 0-06-052837-0 | 2003 |
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- 2024-09-26