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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN num: 9780307346681
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Label: Crown Forum
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Page Count: 320
Printing Date: July 10, 2007
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Guess what? The Indians didn’t save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states’ rights—an idea reviled today—were even more important than the Constitution’s checks and balances. The “Wild” West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn’t involve an intern in a blue dress.
Surprised? Don’t be. In America, where history is riddled with misrepresentations, misunderstandings, and flat-out lies about the people and events that have shaped the nation, there’s the history you know and then there’s the truth.
In 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask, Thomas E. Woods Jr., the New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, sets the record straight with a provocative look at the hidden truths about our nation’s history—the ones that have been buried because they’re too politically incorrect to discuss. Woods draws on real scholarship—as opposed to the myths, platitudes, and slogans so many other “history” books are based on—to ask and answer tough questions about American history, including:
- Did the Founding Fathers support immigration?
- Was the Civil War all about slavery?
- Did the Framers really look to the American Indians as the model for the U.S. political system?
- Was the U.S. Constitution meant to be a “living, breathing” document—and does it grant the federal government wide latitude to operateas it pleases?
- Did Bill Clinton actually stop a genocide, as we’re told?
You’d never know it from the history that’s been handed down to us, but the answer to all those questions is no.
Woods’s eye-opening exploration reveals how much has been whitewashed from the historical record, overlooked, and skewed beyond recognition. More informative than your last U.S. history class, 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask will have you wondering just how much about your nation’s past you haven’t been told.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."- Thomas Jefferson
The authors approach is brilliant. Thomas E. Woods Jr. will take you on a journey through 33 myths that the elite would love to keep you ignorant of. The American public education system (or should I call it public misinformation system) subjects our children to revisionist history that should scream scenes from Orwell's 1984. This makes books such as these just that much more important.
The author will take you on a journey from the very unenvironmentally friendly Native Americans (there were less old growth forrests during their time than our own) to President Bill Clinton's mistakes in Kosovo. You'll learn why our city streets our less safe than the wild west, and why our founding fathers didn't believe in the elastic clause. Better yet, you'll start to question just why you were never taught any of these things while attending the public misinformation system. Were fed slogans in school, not facts. Yet I believe the author says it best.
" For this reason alone the state's official version of history, which is always and everywhere another such apologia on behalf of itself, deserves not the benefit of the doubt but an abiding and informed skepticism. No free people ever survived on a consistent diet of official propaganda. Hayek was right: how we understand the past dramatically influences how we view the present. That is why, for the sake of American freedom , there should be no question about American history you're not supposed to ask."
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Thomas Woods has became one of the foremost defenders of the Catholic Church and Austrian economics. As a person with a great deal of interest in the way cultures work and personality psychology, I can strongly see the sympathy the two have for each other in their strong emphasis on "natural law" and, in psychological typology, a "feeling" oriented means of judging the world.
"33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask" follows from his excessively selective Politically Incorrect Guide to American History but follows a question-and-answer format whereby Woods, in a manner more direct yet rather calmer than in the PIG, explains how each myth propagated in American public schools is wrong and offers a correction. The way in which Woods isolates the questions to explain why the explanation popular in US public schools is completely wrong actually makes him more convincing. This is especially true regarding the Civil War, which stands out very clearly in comparison to what Woods wrote earlier, whilst his rather milder tone helps especially to make the question about unions much clearer. On the other hand, his calmer tone seems to inhibit Woods from looking at issues I know from reading the far-left - for instance the activity of strikebreakers in the period before mass unionisation during the 1930s. (There is a difference most on the Right miss between what is taught in schools and even universities versus what the extremities of the Left think.)
There are a number of interesting points in "33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask". For instance, George Washington Carver and Samuel B. Fuller are two people whom most people in my Australian homeland would never mention, and even reading a little about them from Woods' perspective is quite interesting though neither worked in subjects I have any real interest in. His viewpoint on the "Wild West" is also well-argued and contradicts popular views of it even in Australia.
On the other hand, there are a large number of questions in "33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask" that detract from the book because they are simply so derivative. Examples include his viewpoint about the causes of the Great Depression and the failure of the New Deal to restore prosperity (which could have come from any time since) and even more about how Native Americans actually did a great deal of damage to the environment (anybody with the slighted knowledge of human ecology should know that perfectly). Had Woods included something more original instead of these "popular" questions he would have done himself credit.
All in all, "33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask" is a mixed bag. There are some interesting point, and it is better-written and cited than the Politically Incorrect Guides, but parts are very derivative and one hopes could be replaced with much more original questions.
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As a scholar, I approached this book interested in obscure and less understood historical topics. I was appalled to find the partisan bias, in constructing questions as well as answers, which permeates this book. Unless you have been brainwashed by far right-wing political views and are looking for confirmation of your biases, you will find this book a waste of time. It lacks depth, accuracy, and objectivity.
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I quite enjoyed this book and am looking forward to other books by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. It explodes various myths about American History that we were all taught in school, such as the "beneficial" effects of Marshall Plan. If you are a fan of history, and have an open mind, this book is for you.
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A few of the chapters were quite interesting however several of them were as interesting as watching an ice cube melt on a chilly day. The author is undoubtedly to the far right on the political spectrum. His slur of Doris Kearns Goodwin was one of great exaggeration.
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