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48 Liberal Lies About American History: (That You Probably Learned in School)

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Publisher: Sentinel HC
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Release date: 2008-09-04
Media: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
Ean: 9781595230515
Book Isbn: 1595230513
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Professional Review:
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.

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Rating 2   Written on December 13, 2008
   Summary: Larry Schweikart is a 'Liar'
Larry Shweikart is a 'liar - at least by his own standards of calling people liars. For Schweikart evidently regards anyone who disagrees
with his conservative views - for example, as to whether America was founded to be a 'Christian nation' - as not merely mistaken or ill-informed but as knowingly communicating falsehoods with the attempt to deceive - or a liberal 'liar.'

He prominently cites Mark Whitten's The Myth of Christian America:
What You Need to Know About the Separation of Chcurch and State at
the beginning of his twelfth chapter, "Liberal Lie #12: The Founders Envisioned a 'Wall of Separation' Between Church and State, Keeping Religious Influence Out of Government."

Most people assume that if an author quotes from the work of another, that author has competently read that work. Surely Schweikart wants
his readers to make such an assumption. Yet it is impossible for
someone who has read Whitten's book carefully and competently to offer Whitten as an example of one who affirms that the Founders envisioned a "wall of separation" or that "religious influences" should be kept out of government. Whitten criticizes the wall metaphor of church-state separation and 'strict separation,' and expressly repudiates the view that separation, as he understands it, means that the religious views and values of Americans should not influence their political involvements and public policy.

Since for Schweikart one cannot merely be mistaken or wrong in their misinterpretation and misuse of sources, but instead are 'liars,' then consistent with his own use of the term Schweikart is a 'liar' given
the way he misrepresents Whitten's statement and book.

One also assumes that if an historian quotes an historical document, their quotation of that document is accurate. Schweikart offers as evidence for his claims that America is a 'Christian nation' the
Supreme Court decision Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States (1892). On page 73 he writes:

"Even The Supreme Court, as late as 1892 (Church of the Holy Trinity
v. United States), found in a unanimous decsion, 'OUR LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS NECESSARILY ARE BASED UPON AND EMBODY THE TEACHINGS OF
THE REDEEMER OF MANKIND. . . . [IN] THIS SENSE AND TO THIS EXTENT OUR CIVILIZATION AND OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE EMPHATICALLY CHRISTIAN. . . . [This] is a Christian nation.'"

But the words this reviewer has emphasized above are not found in the text of the Court's decision! You can read it for yourself and see that they are not. Apparently Schweikart did not, for he cites in reference
a secondary source which itself cites a secondary source which . . .
Since it is apparently not possible in Schweikart's view for scholars to make honest, if careless mistakes in their research, interpretation, or use of historical sources, but instead are branded as 'liars', he is by his own use of the term a 'liar' in his appeal to the Holy Trinity decision.

Now for personal disclosure: this reviewer is the author of The Myth
of Christian America. But I personally do not regard Larry Schweikart as a liar. I sympathize with and agree with a number of things in Schweikart's book, as I am not a political liberal. Other things in the book I do disagree with, particularly his confused discussion of America as a Christian 'nation.' [He fails to distinguish between legal-institutional sense of Christian 'nation' (which I deny) and the historical-cultural sense of the American people as a Christian 'nation' and their cultural and cvil institutions as 'Christian' (which I accept).] As I see it, Schweikart and I can disagree, both of us are susceptible to making mistakes in our use and interpretation of sources, and none of this makes either one of us a 'liar.'


Rating 5   Written on December 12, 2008
   Summary: Interesting & Well Written
If our educators are so concerned about the self esteem of our youngsters why do they insist on teaching that America is a horrible country? This explains why home schooling is more popular every year. This book would be helpful for anyone with school age children. Make sure your kids are not being deceived by liberal, blame America first teachers.
Rating 5   Written on November 24, 2008
   Summary: Liberal Lies
My husband saw this book in a bookstore for $25. I found it on amazon for $17 and got free shipping. Cannot beat that deal! I didn't even have to spend gas money to get back to the store to get it for him (as a gift).
Rating 5   Written on November 23, 2008
   Summary: Recommended
We receipt it promptly and are very happy with it. My husband has not read the book yet he just reviewed it. Thank you.
Rating 3   Written on November 12, 2008
   Summary: Weak follow up to a Patriot's History
First of all I have to say that I had grand expectations for this book given how much I enjoyed Larry Schweikart's "A Patriot's History of the United States," yet this book chose the path of being more provocative, and confrontational rather than educational. Schweikart makes a number of good points but also picks and chooses his battles which I believe undermine his arguments in a number of instances.

Please don't misunderstand I am grateful for Mr. Schweikrart's viewpoints and I am glad he is there to make sure we don't slide into an overly biased viewpoint of American history. Still, one only needs to review a representative sample of history texts to see that they bend of backwards to try and be fair and it is in doing so that we end up with the silliness Mr. Schweikart so astutely points out. I enjoy this book, but we are far from the crisis alluded to within its pages.

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Release date2008-09-042008-11-182007-02-272008-06-242008-11-292008-05-27
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Number of pages320288944352608512
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