Thanks for posting your book, I've bought others of yours and just now this one.
One of your opening paragraphs bears repeating:
- "To listen to the leftist writers (the term "scholars" doesn't seem applicable) whose interpretations dominate the teaching of American history, the Revolution was contrived by the wealthy.
Howard Zinn asked, 'Did ordinary white farmers have the ame interest in the revolution as John Hancock... or the slaveholders or the bondholders?
Not really.'
Another Marxist writer, John Peterson, has praised the American Revolution, but only because 'the Americans carried through the bourgeois democratic revolution on a scale never before seen in history.'
A website called Knowledgenuts claims, 'America's Revolution Was Fought by the Poor, Not the Citizens.'
"Marxists can't seem to make up their minds: was the Revolution fought by the poor or by the wealthy landowners for their own interests?..."
On Free Republic, so far as I've seen, there are no self-confessed Marxists, but we do have a number of posters who seemingly schooled under Marxist professors and now just can't shake off their Marxist dialectic thinking processes.
Ahem, ahem...
For those whose minds were poisoned in school by radical Left teachers, LS's books are a great antidote.
