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Meanwhile, Zinn portrays the American Revolution as creating "the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command.”<ref>[http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1493 Howard Zinn's Biased History]</ref>
Meanwhile, Zinn portrays the American Revolution as creating "the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command.”<ref>[http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1493 Howard Zinn's Biased History]</ref>
Zinn is included in David Horowitz's book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics In America,
However, consistent with the decontextualized analysis Zinn often uses to indict America to be a villainous murderer of women and children, he himself could be considered such as he served in the United States Air Corps during World War II on a bomber crew.
Zinn is included in David Horowitz's book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics In America.
Zinn's motivation for his radical point-of-view presentation of history appears to have formally begun with an event at an early age. When he the age of 17 he attended a Times Square political rally where was knocked senseless by police. As a result, Zinn stated that, "I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of democracy. I was a radical, believing something was fundamentally wrong with this country."<ref>Howard Zinn, "The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy," p. 158</ref>
Zinn's motivation for his radical point-of-view presentation of history appears to have formally begun with an event at an early age. When he the age of 17 he attended a Times Square political rally where was knocked senseless by police. As a result, Zinn stated that, "I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of democracy. I was a radical, believing something was fundamentally wrong with this country."<ref>Howard Zinn, "The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy," p. 158</ref>
==Communist Party activity==
==Communist Party activity==
In response to a [[Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA) request by Cliff Kincaid, Editor of [[Accuracy in Media]], on July 30, 2010, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) released a 423 page file on Howard Zinn.The FBI file reveals that while Zinn denied being a member of the CPUSA, several reliable informants in the party identified Zinn as a member who attended party meetings as many as five times a week.
In response to a [[Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA) request by Cliff Kincaid, Editor of [[Accuracy in Media]], on July 30, 2010, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) released a 423 page file on Howard Zinn.The FBI file reveals that while Zinn denied being a member of the CPUSA, several reliable informants in the party identified Zinn as a member who attended party meetings as many as five times a week.