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And the Worst Book of History Is …
New York Times ^
| July 16, 2012
| JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
Posted on 07/16/2012 1:25:38 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Edited on 07/16/2012 1:34:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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The political direction of the country may be up for grabs until November, but the right has scored an interim victory
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: books; historiography; pages
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To: reaganaut1
Zinn’s piece of Marxist propaganda. I say this because if you take American history at a college/university you will be forced by the professor to read this book.
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07/16/2012 2:36:05 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: x
What’s truly sad is to see anyone citing DiLorenzo as a reference.
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07/16/2012 3:22:30 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: GenXteacher
And, on top of everything else, he totally gets the Jackson/BUS stuff wrong and subscribed to the “democracy foaming perilously near the crest” garbage.
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07/16/2012 3:57:09 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
To: reaganaut1
By the way, Zinn has been around since 1980 and has sold 2 m. “Patriot’s History” has been around just since 2004 and already sold 1/3 m with half a mil in print.
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07/16/2012 3:59:53 PM PDT
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LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
To: LS
I’ll have to take your word for it. I got about a fourth of the way through and deemed it unworthy to finish.
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07/16/2012 6:54:58 PM PDT
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GenXteacher
(You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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