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In Part One of our series on the life, work, and legacy of Howard Zinn, Justin Rogers-Cooper and I read Zinn\\u2019s 1994 memoir You Can\\u2019t Be Neutral on a Moving Train and extract some of the juiciest bits of an extraordinary life: Zinn\\u2019s Dickensian childhood and seething class rage, his teenage experience with communists and police in 1930s New York City, his participation in World War II bombing raids that killed thousands of civilians, his life as a teacher and public intellectual during the civil rights and Vietnam War era, and his writing of a popular counter-narrative survey of American history that remains his most famous and controversial work, A People\\u2019s History of the United States. The series continues on our subscriber feed: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap.