Amoeba Music

Few books have been more rigorously studied, discussed, debated, embraced, shunned, lauded and critiqued that Howard Zinn’s magnum opus, A People’s History of the United States. For decades, Zinn (August 24, 1922 — January 27, 2010) was one of this nation’s leading voices and brightest intellects, and he excelled as a wonderfully diverse mind and a polymath of the highest order. Zinn was a political scientist, historian, activist, educator, playwright, and all-around intellectual; his politics were firmly in the anarchic tradition, and he proudly counted himself as a libertarian socialist. Yet while Zinn authored nearly two-dozen books, his name will forever be associated with A People’s History.  Since its... Read More

City Of Origin:

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Genre:

Spoken Word, Cultural Commentary, History

Birthdate:

08/24/1922

Death date:

01/27/2010