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48 liberal lies about American history: (that you probably learned in school)
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Sentinel
Publication Date
2008.
Language
English
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ISBN
9781595230515
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Lie #1: The First Presidents intended for the United States to be isolationist
Lie #2: The Mexican and Spanish-American wars were imperialist efforts drummed up by "corporate interests"
Lie #3: FDR knew in advance about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Lie #4: Harry Truman ordered the atomic bombing of Japan to intimidate the Soviets with "Atomic Diplomacy"
Lie #5: John F. Kennedy was killed by LBJ and a secret team to prevent him from getting us out of Vietnam
Lie #6: Richard Nixon expanded the Vietnam War
Lie #7: The "Peace Movement" activists were not dupes of the KGB
Lie #8: Ronald Reagan knew "Star Wars" wouldn't work but wanted to provoke a war with the USSR
Lie #9: Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, was responsible for ending the Cold War
Lie #10: September 11 was not the work of terrorists: it was a Government Conspiracy
Lie #11: No terrorists or weapons of mass destruction were hiding in Iraq
Lie #12: The founders envisioned a "Wall of Separation" between church and state, keeping religious influence out of government
Lie #13: Thomas Jefferson favored "Small Government" and was a Pacifist
Lie #14: Women had no rights in Early America
Lie #15: Restrictions on the right to vote kept voter participation low
Lie #16: Prohibition was unpopular from the beginning and failed in all its objectives
Lie #17: Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent and wrongly executed
Lie #18: Senator Joseph McCarthy concocted the "Red Scare," and there was nothing to fear from Communist Subversives
Lie #19: The Rosenbergs were not spies and were wrongfully executed
Lie #20: Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK because he was a deranged marine, not because he was a communist
Lie #21: Columbus was responsible for killing millions of Indians
Lie #22: The Early Colonies were intolerant and racist
Lie #23: Early America was home to few guns or gun owners
Lie #24: Abraham Lincoln only freed the slaves to beef up his troop strength
Lie #25: The scopes trial proved that Darwin was correct and Christians were backward
Lie #26: The 1950s were dull and boring and created a generation of conformists in the workplace and home
Lie #27: Richard Nixon sent burglars into the Watergate Office Complex
Lie #28: Neither Ronald Reagan's election nor the "Contract with America" proved the triumph of conservative ideas
Lie #29: Bill Clinton Was impeached over sex
Lie #30: George W. Bush was selected, not elected, in 2000, and votes were stolen on his behalf
Lie #31: Muslim terrorists are poor and uneducated and hate us because we support Israel
Lie #32: The news media is objective, fair, and balanced
and always has been
Lie #33: Native Americans were great environmentalists, while white settlers destroyed the buffalo
Lie #34: The first Thanksgiving took place because the Indians saved the Puritans from their own ineptitude
Lie #35: The "Robber Barons" pillaged the land and destroyed the environment
Lie #36: Federal regulators have protected the public's health by identifying harmful products
Lie #37: Global warming is a fact, and it's a man-made, American-driven problem
Lie #38: The Constitution was the creation of "Elites" protecting their financial interests
Lie #39: Northern Capitalist greed
not slavery
drove the Civil War
Lie #40: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act protected the "Little Guy" and reined in "Big Business"abuses
Lie #41: The transcontinental railroads never would have been built without government
Lie #42: The robber barons were only assuaging their guilt with their philanthropy
Lie #43: The income tax was created to make the rich pay their fair share, and tax cuts only benefit upper-income Americans
Lie #44: Business Failures and tax cuts combined to cause the Great Depression
Lie #45: LBJ's Great society had a positive impact on the poor
Lie #46: The decline of American autos and steel was caused by insufficient government support for the industries
Lie #47: The Reagan Tax cuts caused massive deficits and the national debt
Final Lie: history textbooks used in schools are unbiased and not politically correct.
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