Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book ``A People's History of the United States'' became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass.
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Howard Zinn, historian and activist, dies at 87
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