This man is one of the most brilliant historians of our time. You want a book that will blow your hair back? Read: A Peoples History of the United States. Howard Zinn changed my life.

In the prologue Zinn talks of bias and agenda by writers and historians. He does deny his bias, he accepts it – and chooses to accentuate his words accordingly.

Telling the story of history from the perspective of the conquered – what a novel idea.

I am pretty sure that Zinn would have some words of advice, some philosophical rants, or even stories of change that would boggle my mind.