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History as Mystery
Contributor(s): Parenti, Michael (Author)
ISBN: 0872863573     ISBN-13: 9780872863576
Publisher: City Lights Books
OUR PRICE:   $19.76  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1999
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Annotation: Essays on how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work.

"Michael Parenti, always provocative and eloquent, gives us a lively as well as valuable critique of orthodoxy posing as history.'"-Howard Zinn

"Solid if surely controversial stuff."-"Kirkus"

Table of Contents

Prologue: Against the Mainstream
History as Miseducation
Mainstream Orthodoxy
The Hunt for Real History
Textbooks: America the Beautiful
For Business, Against Labor
The School as a Tool
Priests and Pagans, Saints and Slaves
Triumph of the One True Faith
Silencing the Pagans
Accepting the Powers that Be
Affluent Believers
Saints For Slavery
Bishops and Barbarians, Jezebels and Jews
The Myth of the Devout Peasant
The Curse of Eve
The Burning of Books
Preparing the Holocaust
History in the Faking
Suppression at the Point of Origin
Cold War in the Archives
Classified History, USA
Listening to the Muted Masses
In Ranke's Footsteps
His Majesty's Servant
An Aristocratic Profession''
Purging the Reds
Publishing and Privishing''
Marketing the Right Stuff
The Strange Death of President Zachary
Taylor, a Study in the Manufacture of
Mainstream History
Examining the Examination
Confrontation with the Slavocracy
A lethal Dose of Cherries and Milk?
Honorable Men and Official History
Against Psychopolitics
Depoliticizing the Political
Dubious Clinical Data
Lenin as Oedipus
The Compulsive Hoover
ThePolitical Hoover
When the Political Becomes Personal
Afterword
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Historiography
- History | Essays
- History | Study & Teaching
Dewey: 907.2
LCCN: 99034698
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.48" W x 8.47" (0.77 lbs) 304 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he demonstrates how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work. Pursuing themes ranging from antiquity to modern times, from the Inquisition and Joan of Arc to the anti-labor bias of present-day history books, History as Mystery demonstrates how past and present can inform each other and how history can be a truly exciting and engaging subject.

Michael Parenti, always provocative and eloquent, gives us a lively as well as valuable critique of orthodoxy posing as 'history.'--Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

Deserves to become an instant classic.--Bertell Ollman, author of Dialectical Investigations

Those who keep secret the past, and lie about it, condemn us to repeat it. Michael Parenti unveils the history of falsified history, from the early Christian church to the present: a fascinating, darkly revelatory tale.--Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Pentagon Papers

Solid if surely controversial stuff.--Kirkus