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'''Howard Zinn''' (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was a [[Communist]]<ref>[http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/100809 Howard Zinn: Communist liar]</ref> who is most famous for his book ''[[A People's History of the United States]]''. Initially only being known by people who read the Socialist magazine ''[[The Nation]]'', the book, due largely to a hat tip from Matt Damon's character Will Hunting in the film ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'',<ref>https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/8/9/the-5-most-destructive-political-ideas-in-matt-damons-movies/5/</ref> has sold over a million copies and gives a [[far-left]] interpretation of political history (see [[historical revisionism]]). Zinn's work manifests an inability or unwillingness to engage in objective analysis, and lacks contextual considerations, and instead his presentation of history is a polemic for liberal change. Zinn was very popular with liberal elites, and his book was made into a propagandistic film, ''The People Speak'', which the [[History Channel]] carried on cable television.
'''Howard Zinn''' (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was a [[Communist]]<ref>[http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/100809 Howard Zinn: Communist liar]</ref> who is most famous for his book ''[[A People's History of the United States]]''. Initially only being known by people who read the Socialist magazine ''[[The Nation]]'', the book, due largely to a hat tip from Matt Damon's character Will Hunting in the film ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'',<ref>https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/8/9/the-5-most-destructive-political-ideas-in-matt-damons-movies/5/</ref> has sold over a million copies and gives a [[far-left]] interpretation of political history (see [[historical revisionism]]). Zinn's work manifests an inability or unwillingness to engage in objective analysis, and lacks contextual considerations, and instead his presentation of history is a polemic for liberal change. Zinn was very popular with liberal elites, and his book was made into a propagandistic film, ''The People Speak'', which the [[History Channel]] carried on cable television.
Zinn's motivation for his anti-American views as well as 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 (in 1939) 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>Zinn, Howard. "The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy", p. 158</ref> In addition, he later served in World War II as part of a bomber crew in the United States Army Air Corps, although it should be noted that, due to his having already adopted anti-American views by that point, the actual reason for participating in World War II was not due to patriotism to America but instead to aid the Soviet Union due to Hitler breaking the Molotov-Ribbentropp pact. Ironically, given his wartime role, he would later use out of context statements of alleged American mass murder of women and children of various peoples as an indictment.
==A People's History==
==A People's History==