No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American HistoryHarper & Row, 1971 - 311 pagina's Explodes such American myths as free elections, the Mason-Dixon line, free enterprise, Emancipation, and the Puritan Pilgrims. |
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Pagina 181
... Lincoln , in a single paragraph : Blacks have no reason to feel grateful to Abraham Lincoln . Rather , they should be angry at him . After all , he came into office in 1861 . How come it took him two whole years to free the slaves ? His ...
... Lincoln , in a single paragraph : Blacks have no reason to feel grateful to Abraham Lincoln . Rather , they should be angry at him . After all , he came into office in 1861 . How come it took him two whole years to free the slaves ? His ...
Pagina 188
... Lincoln summed up the meeting in these words : I admit that slavery is the root of the rebellion , or at least its ... Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation , which was issued the first of the following year . He proved to be a man ...
... Lincoln summed up the meeting in these words : I admit that slavery is the root of the rebellion , or at least its ... Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation , which was issued the first of the following year . He proved to be a man ...
Pagina 190
... Lincoln there . Thursday afternoon , July 14 , 1862 , President Lincoln gave audi- ence at the White House to a " committee of colored men . " The President informed his guests that a sum of money had been placed at his disposal by ...
... Lincoln there . Thursday afternoon , July 14 , 1862 , President Lincoln gave audi- ence at the White House to a " committee of colored men . " The President informed his guests that a sum of money had been placed at his disposal by ...
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The Myth of the Puritan Pilgrim I | 1 |
The Myth of the Savage | 31 |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | 64 |
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