48 Liberal Lies About American Histor..., Larry Schweikart
48 Liberal Lies About American Histor..., Larry Schweikart
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48 Liberal Lies About American History
(That You Probably Learned in School)

Author: Larry Schweikart

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 10 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 08/25/2009


Synopsis

A conservative historian defends America’s past by debunking four dozen common liberal myths

In this follow-up to the best-selling A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professor Larry Schweikart once again challenges liberal historians and their shameful attempts to distort our country’s legacy. This time he takes on authors of popular textbooks who, in an effort to be politically correct, tarnish America’s image in the eyes of our high school and college students.

The problem isn’t that liberal authors present their opinions or interpretations of history from an obvious left-wing bias. The problem is authors who actually distort facts and manipulate data in an effort to appear objective and unbiased while furthering their leftist objectives.

Students learn, for example, that the Founding Fathers were elitists who drafted the Constitution in order to protect their own economic interests. . . .That Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers. . . .That racist groups such as the KKK represented our society in the early twentieth century. . . .That the failures of capitalism caused the Great Depression. All false, as readers will discover.

About The Author

Larry Schweikart is the coauthor of A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror, and is a professor of history at the University of Dayton. He has written more than 20 books on national defense, business, and financial history.Sean Pratt has recorded hundreds of audiobooks in almost every genre. He is a six-time winner of AudioFile magazine’s Earphones Award and a two-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by William on January 08, 2012

Good overview of some of the major flaws in modern college history texts. Should be read as a companion to typical college history texts.......more

Goodreads review by Jon on January 11, 2024

This is a book of short articles. Some of them good, some of them not so great. Most are pretty good though. Good for casual reading.......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on October 31, 2018

The author knows what he is talking about when he criticizes textbooks for the lies they pass along, and he names names in this humorous and enlightening book about American history.  In many ways, this particular book is a deliberate antagonist to Lies My Teacher Told Me, a work of progressive acti......more

Goodreads review by Anna on October 23, 2012

This book is very eye-opening. You know the saying those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it? Well, it's a bit hard to learn from history when the history that is being taught and learned is such a slanted view of what actually happened. The same mistakes will be made over and over......more

Goodreads review by Amy on February 14, 2016

With 45 pages of endotes, one can hardly say it isn't well-researched. Professor Schweikart does a fantastic job of providing a concise and fact-based accounting of historical people and events, which are under threat of "revision" by those who cannot be bothered with research, facts or objectivity.......more