Front cover image for No more lies : the myth and the reality of American history

No more lies : the myth and the reality of American history

Dick Gregory (Author), James R. McGraw (Editor)
"In 1972, during the Black Power Movement, iconoclast Dick Gregory challenged one of the foundations of America itself--its history, which had been written almost exclusively from the white male perspective. In No More Lies, this true trailblazer gave voice to African Americans, speaking their truth about the past and race relations in the United States. No More Lies offers this incomparable satirist's intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts. No subject is off limits from his critical eye--Gregory examines numerous aspects of culture and history, from the slave trade, police brutality, the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the 1968 Civil Rights Act, the Founding Fathers, "happy slaves," and entrepreneurs. Although this absorbing book is more than forty years old, its provocative truths continue to reverberate in our lives today. With No More Lies, Gregory inspire a new generation to connect what is happening today with what has happened in the past." --Amazon.com
eBook, English, 2021
Digital edition View all formats and editions
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 2021
History
1 online resource
9780063042599, 0063042592
1159832495
Introduction: For white only
The myth of the Puritan pilgrim
The myth of the savage
The myth of the founding fathers
The myth of Black content
The myth of the courageous white settler and the free frontier
The myth of the Mason-Dixon Line
The myth of free enterprise
The myth of emancipation
The myth of the bootstrap
The myth of the good neighbor
The myth of American rhetoric
The myth of American rhetoric
The myth of free elections
Epilogue: From myth to reality
Postscript: Dr. Martin Luther King's last message to America