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New at Reason: Michael C. Moynihan on the Baleful Influence of Howard Zinn
Activist and writer Howard Zinn died last
week at the age of 87. The novelist Dave Eggers praised Zinn in
The New Yorker, arguing that "his effect on how
we see and teach history is immeasurable." Eggers is right about
that. But while Zinn might have been an effective activist, writes
Michael C. Moynihan, he was an exceptionally bad historian.
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