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 99
... vote aloud . When a candidate seated at the table received a vote , he would arise and thank the voter personally . Addressing the voter by name , the candidate would say , " I shall treasure that vote in my memory . It will be regarded ...
... vote aloud . When a candidate seated at the table received a vote , he would arise and thank the voter personally . Addressing the voter by name , the candidate would say , " I shall treasure that vote in my memory . It will be regarded ...
Pagina 300
... vote ( though many blacks have been kept off the voter registration rolls through various kinds of intimidation ) , but they have never enjoyed the equally important right to select the candidate who appears on the ballot . The right to ...
... vote ( though many blacks have been kept off the voter registration rolls through various kinds of intimidation ) , but they have never enjoyed the equally important right to select the candidate who appears on the ballot . The right to ...
Pagina 332
... vote at age eighteen . " That's absolutely foolish ! If a young man has to go to war at age eighteen , he had better get the right to vote at age seventeen . As groovy as young folks in America are today , if they got the right to vote ...
... vote at age eighteen . " That's absolutely foolish ! If a young man has to go to war at age eighteen , he had better get the right to vote at age seventeen . As groovy as young folks in America are today , if they got the right to vote ...
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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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