July 18, 2013 by Peter Wood 567 Why Mitch Daniels Was Right The Associated Press broke a story on July 16 that Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University, wrote e-mails while the governor of Indiana attacking the use of Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States , as “a truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page." My first response: good for Mr. Daniels. His comment, made on February 9, 2010—according to the date s...