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Author, teacher and political activist Howard Zinn died today at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, CA due to a heart attack. Zinn wrote “A People’s History of the United States” in 1980 and it became a million selling leftist alternative to mainstream political and historical works. Zinn lived in Auburndale, Mass and taught as a professor for many years at Boston University.
According to the New York Times, Zinn retired in 1988 and spent his last day of on the picket line with students to support of an campus nurses’ strike. Zinn continued to lecture at schools after his retirement.
His wife Roslyn died in 2008. Roslyn and Howard Zinn had two children.
According to the New York Times, one of Zinn’s last writings was a essay, published last week in The Nation magazine. The essay speask to the first year of the Obama administration.
“I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction", said Zinn.
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Historian, Political Theorist, Educator (1922—2010 )
“The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.”
~Howard Zinn
Above is a portrait by Robert Shetterly from his Americans Who Tell The Truth series.
Howard Zinn speaks
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