Leftist Eric Alterman on Comrade Zinn

Leftist Eric Alterman of Center For American Progress reports:

Mitch Daniels—the former Republican governor of Indiana and now president of Purdue University—and I don’t have much in common, except neither one of us are big fans of the late pro-Communist historian and anti-war activist Howard Zinn. When my daughter was in middle school a few years ago, I went to a parents’ night and discovered that the only readings in American history being assigned to the students were drawn from a collection edited by Zinn. In the assigned Zinn book, the liberals come off as right-wingers, relatively speaking, and there were no conservatives at all. I wrote a column about that parents’ night visit in The Forward in which I made fun of myself—an Upper West Side, New York liberal objects to his daughter’s leftist schooling

Eric Alterman contends with comrade Zinn.