Dave Zirin is the sports editor for The Nation, a columnist for The Progressive, and the author of eight books on the politics of sports, including What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States and A People's History of Sports in the United States.
His new book, The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, tells the story of his friend and mentor — the working-poor kid from a Jewish family in New York who served in the US Army Air Force in World War II and had a crisis of conscience about killing civilians.
After the war, Howard Zinn earned his PhD in history at Columbia, then went on to teach at Spelman College, where he helped mentor a generation of Black American civil rights activists and future political and cultural leaders.
Zirin reflects on what it was like to know Zinn not as a public figure but as a dear friend — and the lessons he taught him about living a full life, generosity, and the many forms that teaching can take.
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