Howard Zinn (1922–2010) was a historian, playwright, and social activist. He taught at Spelman College and Boston University. His many books include A People's History of the United States and a memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times.
"Howard Zinn's LaGuardia in Congress is an exceedingly well-written and highly readable study of a man and his times. It describes the career of an extraordinary human being whose background and ideology presaged the New Deal and whose specific legislative program foreshadowed and even went beyond it... The volume is well documented. Zinn has drawn heavily from the personal papers of LaGuardia and his contemporaries, as well as from the interpretive studies of the period."-American Political Science Review "An admirable book, lively, objective, and nostalgic... LaGuardia kept the flame of reform at least sputtering through years when the popular opinion supposed everything to be perfect. Howard Zinn wisely reminds us not to think of LaGuardia as having been an 'important figure' in these years; yet his energy was so fierce and many of the incidents of his political battles so picturesque that one could easily exaggerate the place he held on the national scene. In fact, he was almost invariably on the side of defeat. He was fighting against massive powers and, even more chillingly, against apathy and complacency."-Saturday Review
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