Howard Zinn

Zinn was interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show to promote his new book Voices of A People's History of the United States. He modestly--and I don't think his modesty is a marketing ploy--says that his writing in his landmark book, A People's History of the United States, didn't tell the American story as well as his original sources. Thus, the new book has been published which presents those sources as the unembellished voices of our history. A very worthy effort, I think.

In talking to Stewart, he makes an interesting point about how much our history parallels with current events, which is a point I was trying to make with my earlier comments which equated the Mexican-American War to Iraq. Zinn specifically draws intriguing parallels between the faith-driven imperialism of Christopher Columbus and George Bush.