Here are a few examples. Each of these books contain about 25 pages on the Civil War, 35 on World War I, and 50 on the New Deal. For the Communists, our New Deal was the one good thing that happened here.
It's almost humorous how our cultural elite relentlessly favored only those authors and artists that made America look bad, gloomy, broken.
This bias helped "Tobacco Road" became a bestseller around 1933. Then one of these textbooks could say: "Erskine Caldwell, in Tobacco Road, described life in the South. His characters lived on a level considerably lower, morally and intellectually, than blooded hogs." And that, you see, is Life In The South. (Doesn't the single phrase "considerably lower" show us that this so-called historian had completely lost it?)
One major lie spread throughout these texts is that the Bolsheviks staged a revolution in Russia against the czar. In fact, Kerensky staged that revolution -- a true popular rebellion against the old aristocracy. Six months later, Lenin's Bolsheviks, through trickery and lies, staged a COUP against this Socialist government and subverted it. The Bolsheviks did not even remotely represent the wishes of the people but it was these fanatics who took over the country; and it was these master subversives that were soon undermining every country and culture in the world. And thus, I would venture, we have these warped history books.
One astonishing parallel I noticed is with Reform Math. This phrase refers to at least a dozen separate math programs now common in our public schools. Virtually all of them are the same in being confusing and inferior. Few parents who have a choice use these books.
What you have in both the 11 history books and 12 math programs is this clever evil: an illusion of choice. Think of the planning, the coordination, the relentless dishonesty required to create a dozen almost identical things while pretending that they are not the same and not related. Only Commies could pull off stuff like this. Of course, that's just my opinion.
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Note: also see my other Amazon reviews. They mostly deal with education and history.
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Washing-High-Schools-Merrill/product-reviews/B003XGJ4OQ/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
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Gloria Steinhem admits now that CIA funded Ms. Magazine. Why? Elites have all the influence in CIA. Object being get women out of the house, so now you can own, control and tax twice as much labor. Second, let the STATE teachers educate/indoctrinate the kids. Added bonus of family breakdown thrown in.