We have lost Howard Zinn, an old lion of the Left, who never stopped writing and speaking for the underdog.  With his passing, there’s “a hole in the sky.”

There are not too many books of which you can say, “Reading this changed my life.”  I can probably count them on the fingers of one hand.  One of those is Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.”  It is the history of our country from the perspective of those who generally remain voiceless: native Americans, slaves, women, immigrants, poor laboring people.  It’s what you never learned in high school or college when you took American history and read about all the conquering men and heroic deeds of U.S. past.  If you haven’t read Zinn’s book, read it now.  You will be shocked, you may weep.  You will be changed.