Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America
Aug 2019 · Simon and Schuster
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Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach students that American history is nothing more than a litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation.
Zinn’s history is popular, but it is also massively wrong.
Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in her stunning new book Debunking Howard Zinn, which demolishes Zinn’s Marxist talking points that now dominate American education.
In Debunking Howard Zinn, you’ll learn, contra Zinn:
Grabar also reveals Zinn’s bag of dishonest rhetorical tricks: his slavish reliance on partisan history, explicit rejection of historical balance, and selective quotation of sources to make them say the exact opposite of what their authors intended. If you care about America’s past—and our future—you need this book.
Zinn’s history is popular, but it is also massively wrong.
Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in her stunning new book Debunking Howard Zinn, 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 Indians
- Why the American Indians were not feminist-communist sexual revolutionaries ahead of their time
- How the United States was founded to protect liberty, not white males’ ill-gotten wealth
- Why Americans of the “Greatest Generation” were not the equivalent of Nazi war criminals
- How the Viet Cong were not well-meaning community leaders advocating for local self-rule
- Why the Black Panthers were not civil rights leaders
Grabar also reveals Zinn’s bag of dishonest rhetorical tricks: his slavish reliance on partisan history, explicit rejection of historical balance, and selective quotation of sources to make them say the exact opposite of what their authors intended. If you care about America’s past—and our future—you need this book.
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June 9, 2023
This is a necessary book discussing Zinns' charlatan take on history and communist like revisionism. Should be required reading in high school. Looking at all the 1 and 2 star reviews, I can tell you with some certainty that most of them have blue/green hair and are constantly screaming justice and racist.
Andrew Hill
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July 14, 2020
The leftist sycophants have engaged in a smear campaign against Mary, and have littered the reviews with trash comments.. This book clearly lays out the mind of a disturbed person who had the single goal of destroying the United states through lies, and revisionism (as well as the time tested marxist tactic of enflaming racial tensions), this book is a must read for American youth..
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AJ
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March 29, 2021
Warmed over hogwash by someone who isn't even a historian. The very first talking point about Columbus is directly refuted by Columbus' own colonists who wrote of his insane brutality and how much they hated him - so much so that even Ferdinand & Isabella were so appalled by his behaviors that they stripped him of his governorship.
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About the author
Mary Grabar is a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and the founder of the Dissident Prof Education Project. She taught at the college level for twenty years, most recently at Emory University, and her work has been published by The Federalist, Townhall, FrontPage Magazine, City Journal, American Greatness, and Academic Questions.
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