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 75
... fire bells rang out summoning Crispus Attucks and other men and youths of Boston . Crispus Attucks was a black man ... fire . Though the term " pigs " was not yet in use , the demon- strators on the Boston Common were shouting , " The ...
... fire bells rang out summoning Crispus Attucks and other men and youths of Boston . Crispus Attucks was a black man ... fire . Though the term " pigs " was not yet in use , the demon- strators on the Boston Common were shouting , " The ...
Pagina 175
... fire . You cannot put it out . The ground is on fire upon which you stand . You can't understand it . You don't believe in magical arts , as your grandfathers did , who burned witches at the stake , but you do believe in conspiracies ...
... fire . You cannot put it out . The ground is on fire upon which you stand . You can't understand it . You don't believe in magical arts , as your grandfathers did , who burned witches at the stake , but you do believe in conspiracies ...
Pagina 271
... fire swept through Rome . Everyone remembers it today as a time when " Nero fiddled while Rome burned . " Gibbon describes the slum condi- tions at the time of the fire with these words : " Innumerable buildings , crowded in close and ...
... fire swept through Rome . Everyone remembers it today as a time when " Nero fiddled while Rome burned . " Gibbon describes the slum condi- tions at the time of the fire with these words : " Innumerable buildings , crowded in close and ...
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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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