Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America Audiobook (Free)
Summary:
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold a lot more than 2.5 million copies. It really is forced by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university or college professors who know better, and assigned in senior high school and university classrooms to instruct students that American history is only a litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation.
Zinn’s background is popular, nonetheless it can be massively wrong.
Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in her stunning new book Debunking Howard Zinn, on the subject of Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America which demolishes Zinn’s Marxist talking points that now dominate American education.
In Debunking Howard Zinn, you’ll learn, contra Zinn:
How Columbus was not a genocidal maniac, and was, in fact, a defender of IndiansWhy the American Indians were not feminist-communist sexual revolutionaries ahead of their timeHow the United States was founded to safeguard liberty, not white adult males’ ill-gotten wealthWhy Americans of the “Greatest Generation” weren’t the equivalent of Nazi battle criminalsHow the Viet Cong weren’t well-meaning community leaders advocating for local self-ruleWhy the Black Panthers were not civil legal rights leadersGrabar also reveals Zinn’s handbag of dishonest rhetorical tips: his slavish reliance on partisan background, explicit rejection of historical balance, and selective quotation of sources to create them say the exact contrary of what their authors intended. In the event that you value America’s past-and our future-you need this book.
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