The Politically Correct Guide to American History [Paperback]

Edward P. Moser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 7, 1999

The Founding Fathers were cross-dressers. Paula Bunyan was a lumberjane. To Benedict Arnold, treason was just another lifestyle choice. This is not the American past you may remember from social studies class.

In The Politically Correct Guide to American History, U.S. history is rewritten according to the core curriculum of political correctness: frivolous lawsuits, animal rights activism, racial quotas, and in-your-face feminism. This wide-ranging tour de farce is a satirical stew of such varying topical material as tabloid journalism, gun control, and Britain's royal family. Nothing in American history is safe from revision: Theodore Roosevelt founds the Rough Riders to surmount a midlife crisis, the gang of outlaws at the O.K. Corral is recast as a freedom-loving private militia, and the Louisiana Purchase almost never happens because President Thomas Jefferson faces a sexual harassment suit from Sally Hemings.

The Politically Correct Guide to American History gives a suspiciously contemporary spin to the past--as it might be taught in future classrooms!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

To the flood of books targeting P.C., add this witty look at U.S. history by a contributing writer to TV's Tonight Show. Moser concentrates here on highlights that led him to point up egregious absurdities. He takes particular aim at environmentalists, beginning with George Washington and the cherry tree, but also works over antisexist vocabulary and defenders of those charged with violent crimes and so-called gangs of the Old West, which they excuse as freedom-loving private militias. The Founding Parents, particularly the "Virginia Mafia," French cuisine, those who insist that lumberjane Paula Bunyan was actually a male, the Menendez brothers and Antioch College's notorious dating code get their lumps as well. Moser is expert at reconstructing the tortured vocabulary and syntax of P.C. enthusiasts and should appeal to the verbally sophisticated. Author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review

"A witty look at U.S. history...The author is expert at reconstructing the tortured vocabulary of Political Correctness....
Should appeal to the verbally sophisticated."
--Publishers Weekly


From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (June 7, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609801880
• ISBN-13: 978-0609801888
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,330,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Book of its Kind, September 4, 2000

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Larry Schwartz (Fair Lawn, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Politically Correct Guide to American History (Paperback)

I found Mr. Moser's book totally unique in a class of its own. This tongue in cheek look at American History pokes fun at the absurdity of today's "politically correct" socialites, but also exposes the awful truth about our own knowledge of American History. Many of us learned our history from high school text books written in the post World War 50's. The class was taught by a teacher whose first name was "Coach". By "rewriting" that history according to today's "political correctness" Ed gives us a humorous glimpse of what the history text books of the future may look like. Worth the $9.00!