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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Howard Zinn
Born: August 24, 1922
Died: January 27, 2010 (aged 87)
Bio: Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than twenty books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.
Known for:
- A People's History of the United States (1980)
- You can't be neutral on a moving train (1994)
- A People's History of American Empire (2008)
- Marx in Soho (1999)
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