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 93
... issue like civil rights , or fair housing , or jobs . But it really was a tax on tea . In 1970 most Americans don't even drink tea , yet they will accept and admire the courageous spirits who would fight a revolutionary war over a tea ...
... issue like civil rights , or fair housing , or jobs . But it really was a tax on tea . In 1970 most Americans don't even drink tea , yet they will accept and admire the courageous spirits who would fight a revolutionary war over a tea ...
Pagina 229
... issue as a rallying point against the South . Only as a wartime measure did the Emancipation Proclamation make sense anyway . No President can declare the Constitution null and void , and Abraham Lincoln knew that . However , in an ...
... issue as a rallying point against the South . Only as a wartime measure did the Emancipation Proclamation make sense anyway . No President can declare the Constitution null and void , and Abraham Lincoln knew that . However , in an ...
Pagina 310
... issue upon America in the interests of justice . But white America demonstrated no real enthusiasm for law and order while the killing of black people was going on . White resistance to law and order produced the inevitable result of ...
... issue upon America in the interests of justice . But white America demonstrated no real enthusiasm for law and order while the killing of black people was going on . White resistance to law and order produced the inevitable result of ...
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The Myth of the Puritan Pilgrim | 15 |
The Myth of the Savage | 50 |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | 88 |
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