HOWARD ZINN AT 90
Harvard lecturer Timothy Patrick McCarthy, editor of The Indispensable Zinn, rebuts decades of criticism leveled at his late mentor Howard Zinn, who would have turned 90 this month.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy teaches history, literature, and public policy at Harvard University, where he also directs the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. An award-winning scholar, teacher, and activist, he is editor of The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the "People’s Historian" published by the New Press. He is also author of Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism.
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