Howard Zinn

It occurs to me that Zinn's signature "accomplishment" is telling the Soviet version of the American story--the story which ostensibly justified all their violence, tyranny and cruelty--AS an American, and an American veteran at that. 

Since he deals only with the history of America, ostensibly, he is under no pressure to tell the truth about Communism, or all the cruelties it inflicted.

It can be argued that his book has facilitated more deception and leftist regression than any other single book written in the last 50 years.  I read that it is often the only book on American history even many college students read, and as more or less intentional agit-prop, it no doubt has made Leftist recruiting much easier.

I will submit that a much better book for anyone wanting to learn American history from someone who self identifies as a historian first and foremost (and not propagandist) would be Paul Johnson's excellent "History of the American People."  All of Johnson's books are good.  "Inte…