Myth America
Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

I am familiar with both Kruse and Zelizer and their work on post 1973 history. Really like the concept of this collected set of essays on everything from American Exceptionalism to police violence. This is a great edition for someone wanting to cut through a lot of the research to understand key ide......more

I felt this book was very uneven in the quality of the essays. Some of them were excellent and thought provoking, others could have been essays in the New Republic, Salon or Vox. The vast majority of them are attacks on conservatives, Republicans, and especially Donald Trump, who continues to live i......more

3.5 stars... What's here is well researched and well argued, but there is a pretty serious lack of balance to the collection of essays. Instead of a consideration of ALL of the "biggest legends and lies" in American history/culture, this is essentially a consideration of what conservatives believe t......more

Greatest hits to disprove historical revisionists. This is a good book to keep in your quiver when trying to fight a lot of BS historical revisionist crap going on right now to justify awful policies and politicians in the US. This book is a series of highly readable essays by a bevy of historians. I......more

The 20 + 1 Myth Syndrome Mu full review could not be posted due to the limitations of Goodreads, not enough space. The book is presented in twenty chapters by twenty different authors, each covering a widely believed myth about American history, culture, and politics. My full review was a summary of......more