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48 Liberal Lies About American History: (That You Probably Learned in School) |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 3155
Publication Date: 2008-09-04
Publisher: Sentinel HC
ISBN: 1595230513
Type: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 320
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A historian debunks four-dozen PC myths about our nation’s past.
Over the last forty years, history textbooks have become more and more politically correct and distorted about our country’s past, argues professor Larry Schweikart. The result, he says, is that students graduate from high school and even college with twisted beliefs about economics, foreign policy, war, religion, race relations, and many other subjects.
As he did in his popular A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professor Schweikart corrects liberal bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known. He challenges distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight common myths. A sample:
• The founders wanted to create a “wall of separation” between church and state
• Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers
• Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima to intimidate the Soviets with “atomic diplomacy”
• Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, was responsible for ending the Cold War
America’s past, though not perfect, is far more admirable than you were probably taught.
Average Rating: 
Review: 2009-01-08
Schweikart on Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor
Calling 'a liberal lie" the assertion that FDR allowed US forces to be attacked at Pearl Harbor is the exact opposite of the truth. FDR is a hero to liberals because of, among other things, social security, which conservatives hate. The canard that FDR betrayed our troops is a conservative canard.
Those familiar with Schweikart's other work will not be surprised that he is inaccurate. Here are a few factual errors from America's Victories:
The Battle of Kasserine Pass, in 1943, was not an American victory, despite the book's assertion. This battle was a stunning defeat for inexperienced and badly led US troops.
The book asserts that the 82nd ABN Division fought the Germans at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. In fact, it was the 101st.
Schweikart is also gullible, a serious fault in a historian. To take only one example of gullibility: S accepts Westmoreland's estimates of enemy casualties in the siege of Khe San. Only an exceedingly naive historian would credit any general's claims of enemy losses, since these are typically exaggerated, as any historian worth his salt knows. In the case of Westmoreland, enemy casualty estimates were driven by the usual military egoism and also by his attempt to sell an unpopular war to the people back home. Westmoreland even imagined himself to be a viable presidential candidate! America's Victories
Review: 2009-01-03
Clear thinking
Professor Schweikart has presented a worthwhile book in an effort to set the record straight. This work is something every student of history should read. It has been said that we learn nothing from history but this is true only to the extent history is ignored. Even if a person disagrees with Schweikart's work, a reader will come away knowing that not everything is as clear as some may assume. He clears away a lot of the fog which has so often given a fuzzy picture of what truly has happened. Going all the way back to George Washington, Schweikart has pinpointed important times in American history and shown how we've gotten the wrong picture.
Highly recommended.
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