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REVEALED: The truths about American history that liberal academics have buried - because they're too politically incorrect to discuss
33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Leftist textbooks and professors say one thing, and real history says another: in reality, the Indians didn't save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. The "Wild West" wasn't a freewheeling, lawless region - in fact it was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal didn't lift the United States out of the Great Depression. Foreign aid programs don't help our friends and allies break out of poverty. And the biggest scandal involving Bill Clinton didn't have anything to do with an intern in a blue dress and vengeful Republicans.
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In fact, probably a great deal of what you were led to believe was true about American history is actually politically motivated myth, served up by Leftists to advance their agenda. The teaching of American history today is riddled with misrepresentations, misunderstandings, and flat-out lies about the people and events that have shaped the nation. But now Thomas E. Woods, Jr., the New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, sets the record straight on key issues where most liberal histories present politically motivated pseudo-history as established fact, in 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask.
Ranging from the Founding Fathers' intentions in framing the Constitution to the real reasons why Bill Clinton's presidency was such a disaster, Woods's eye-opening tour of American history reveals just how thoroughly liberal historians have whitewashed the historical record, overlooking key events and skewing others beyond recognition in order to advance their political agenda for today.
Can you guess the answers to these questions?
- Were the American Indians really the proto-environmentalists that they are routinely characterized as having been?
- Did Indian wisdom really help the Pilgrims grow corn, thus saving European settlement in the New World?
- What really happened in the Whiskey Rebellion, and why will neither your textbook nor George Washington tell you?
- Did the Founding Fathers really look to the American Indians - specifically, the Iroquois League -- as the model for the U.S. political system?
- Did the Founding Fathers support the unrestricted immigration we see today?
- Did the Founding Fathers believe juries could refuse to enforce unjust laws?
- Was the U.S. Constitution meant to be a "living, breathing" document -- and does it grant the federal government wide latitude to operate as it pleases?
- The Civil War -- all about slavery, right?
- Herbert Hoover: when the Great Depression devastated the country, he sat back and did nothing, didn't he?
- Did desegregation of schools significantly narrow the black-white achievement gap?
- Did Martin Luther King, Jr., support affirmative action?
- Did Bill Clinton actually stop a genocide in Kosovo, as his sycophantic followers insist?
A sampling of what you'll learn:
- How the Civil War dealt a mortal blow to the last check on the unlimited power of the federal government
- The money spent to wage Lincoln's war: it could have purchased the freedom of every single slave and given them all forty acres and a mule
- The British democracy advocate who saw Southern secession as the only hope for the "redemption of Democracy"
- Social Security: what the American people have been told for seventy years about how it works is actually false - and how, every time Social Security experiences a crisis, the mythology about the program dominates the public debate
- Why, according to the Constitution, the President cannot on his own authority send troops anywhere in the world he wants - and why the Framers granted the authority to declare war to the Legislative, not the Executive branch
- Why the many examples of the President sending troops into battle without Congressional authorization do not prove that he has Constitutional authority to do so
- Why the casual assumption that discrimination necessarily leads to poverty cannot withstand serious scrutiny
- An extraordinary example of the evolution of private, voluntary mechanisms that successfully carried out the very functions of which the private sector is routinely assumed to be incapable: defining and enforcing property rights, adjudicating disputes, and protecting people against crime
- Theodore Roosevelt: how he transformed American government and ran roughshod over key Constitutional safeguards against Big Government
- Woodrow Wilson: how historians continually ignore his catastrophic errors and foreign-policy disasters, and rank him high among the Presidents
- The peaceful and ultimately successful campaign of popular resistance to an oppressive tax that has virtually vanished from the history books
- The Constitution on the government's authority to provide for the "general welfare": how the broad reading of this clause, which has been used to justify Big Government and is taken for granted by lawmakers today, makes no logical sense and contradicts the stated intentions of the Framers
- The "civil rights" establishment's massive shakedowns of banks that they believe have not granted enough black loans
- How wealth redistribution by the government directly harms the long-term interests of workers, as well as those of society as a whole - and how government intervention in the economy, not the free market, is responsible for economic downturns
- How government meddling only prolonged, rather than alleviated, the Great Depression - under Hoover as well as FDR - and ultimately crippled American capitalism
- The real Clinton legacy in Kosovo: thousands of Serbian homes looted and vandalized, and 150 Christian churches and monasteries destroyed
- Why the state's official version of history should always be regarded with skepticism - or our survival as a free people is at stake
"A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected." -- Tom Bethell, senior editor, The American Spectator
"Demolishes the historical myths that mislead too many Americans into supporting big government. I strongly recommend Woods's work." -- The Honorable Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives
"Woods, among the most talented of young American historians, asks (and answers) the right questions about the Constitution, the Depression, presidential war-making, and other important things. In so doing, he continues the mission that he began with his Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, which is to bring well-deserved destruction to many of the convenient and misleading commonplaces of the American history class." --Clyde N. Wilson, Professor of History emeritus, University of South Carolina, Editor of The Papers of John C. Calhoun
"Woods takes on some of the most coveted of the politically correct sacred cows and shreds them the old-fashioned way--with incontrovertible evidence and sound reasoning. A provocative and fun romp through American history." -- Roger D. McGrath, author of Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes
"A comprehensive antidote to much of the leftist propaganda that is drummed into today's high school and college students by their teachers and textbooks in the guise of education. This book deserves to be assigned in economics courses as well as in American history courses." --- George Reisman, author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Pepperdine University
"Bold maverick Thomas Woods's latest bestseller is provocative and controversial about issues of enduring importance." --Jim Powell, author of FDR's Folly and Bully Boy
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