I thought it was inappropriate, not for questioning Zinn, but for doing so in a way much more biased than Zinn himself. Zinn was a great historian; Daniel J. Flynn is the proud author of <i>Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness.</i><p>Flynn loses any remaining credit for calling Zinn a Marxist, continuously. That's a label chosen for its emotional resonance; not its meaning. Zinn was a socialist, a libertarian socialist, an anarchist sympathizer, a leftist... but he didn't go around labeling himself as a Marxist on the back of the books, that's something only done by his critics. I might as well be calling Flynn a fascist.