| The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation Contributor(s): Medved, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307394077 ISBN-13: 9780307394071 Publisher: Christian/Forum OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 973 |
| LCCN: 2010290498 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.86" W x 9.4" (0.66 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble," nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. "It's the things we know that just ain't so." In this bold New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country-in spite of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. The Big Lies exposed and dissected include: - America was founded on genocide against Native Americans. - The United States is uniquely guilty for the crime of slavery and built its wealth on stolen African labor. - Aggressive governmental programs offer the only remedy for economic downturns and poverty. - The Founders intended a secular, not Christian, nation. Each of the ten lies is a grotesque, propagandistic misrepresentation of the historical record. Medved's witty, well-documented rebuttal supplies the ammunition necessary to fire back the next time somebody tries to recycle destructive distortions about our nation. |