Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Woods Thomas E.
Title : The politically incorrect guide to american history
Year : 2004

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Preface. Will Rogers once said that the problem in America isn’t so much what people don’t know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain’t so. Nowhere is the great humorist’s observation more apt than in the field of American history. The story of American history that most students have encountered for at least the past several decades amounts to a series of drearily predictable clichés: the Civil War was all about slavery, antitrust law saved us from wicked big business, Franklin Roosevelt got us out of the Depression, and so on. From the colonial settlements through the presidency of Bill Clinton, this book, in its brief compass, aims to set the record straight. ...