Reading Howard Zinn's autobiography demonstrates that once the train departs on the journey of life in which events take fatal routes you can't be neutral because that means you're accepting your fate. This is more than an autobiography; it is a book not only about a man's life but about life in general. His book You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train published in 1994 teaches us about the overlooked parts of history, the hardships of the blacks and their movements in the South, war and its true nature, and his own personal vicissitudes. This is a history book; however it is not your typical history book either. Zinn as a teacher, historian and a radical gives the reader a one of a kind history lesson, not one based on research, but the only one he knows which is the one he lived.

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Howard Zinn is...