Free KPFA Event: “The People’s History” Dave Zirin’s New Howard Zinn Biography (Oakland) KPFA co-presents this evening celebrating the publication of The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, by Dave Zirin, a columnist at The Nation. ​The new book examines the life and work of the iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, whose bestselling work, A People’s History of the United States, changed the ...