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Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America Hardcover – August 20, 2019
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Zinn’s history is popular, but it is also massively wrong.
Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in her stunning new book Debunking Howard Zinn, which demolishes Zinn’s Marxist talking points that now dominate American education.
In Debunking Howard Zinn, you’ll learn, contra Zinn:
- How Columbus was not a genocidal maniac, and was, in fact, a defender of Indians
- Why the American Indians were not feminist-communist sexual revolutionaries ahead of their time
- How the United States was founded to protect liberty, not white males’ ill-gotten wealth
- Why Americans of the “Greatest Generation” were not the equivalent of Nazi war criminals
- How the Viet Cong were not well-meaning community leaders advocating for local self-rule
- Why the Black Panthers were not civil rights leaders
Grabar also reveals Zinn’s bag of dishonest rhetorical tricks: his slavish reliance on partisan history, explicit rejection of historical balance, and selective quotation of sources to make them say the exact opposite of what their authors intended. If you care about America’s past—and our future—you need this book.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRegnery History
- Publication dateAugust 20, 2019
- Dimensions6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101621577732
- ISBN-13978-1621577737
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“At long last we have a comprehensive critique of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, an execrable work of pseudohistory, full of mistakes, lies, half-truths, and smears.” -- Peter A. Coclanis ― Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History
“Mary Grabar has produced a devastating analysis of the lies, plagiarism, violation of academic standards, and simple-minded platitudes that characterize Howard Zinn’s best-selling A People’s History of the United States…. as Grabar demonstrates, it has contributed to a serious and potentially disastrous misunderstanding of American history and society.” -- Harvey Klehr ― professor emeritus of politics and history at Emory University
“Zinn’s book has probably done more to poison the minds of high school students than any other work of history. Grabar provides an overdue anatomy of Zinn’s many errors and tendentious interpretations of the United States as an evil, racist empire…. a much-needed antidote to one of the chief intellectual frauds of our time.” -- Roger Kimball ― editor and publisher of the New Criterion and author of Tenured Radicals and The Long March
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- Publisher : Regnery History (August 20, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1621577732
- ISBN-13 : 978-1621577737
- Item Weight : 1.28 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #873,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #552 in Historical Study & Teaching
- #1,962 in Political Conservatism & Liberalism
- #29,626 in United States History (Books)
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"...Rather these are tools of seduction for the Marxist ideology. Great read and well researched...." Read more
"...Her biographical chapter on Zinn (The Life of Zinn) is also well worth reading if only for its examples of academic chicanery...." Read more
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"...This book is remarkably well-done. It's too bad only some will read it and know the truth...." Read more
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"...segments of his quotes from historical authors, and completely misrepresented stories. It's mind-blowing. I thought he was just biased...." Read more
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Finally...Someone Crushes Howard Zinn and Exposes His Damaging Fraudulent Narrative
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This book is as eye opening as, given its subject, it is often disheartening. A brave and admirable work, it deserves the widest possible audience.
Would buy again, this needs to be in the hands of every parent that has a school age kid.
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Das Buch tut was es verspricht, es zeigt die Fehler und versteckte Propaganda in Howard Zinn's Buch und tut dies mit guten Fussnoten und Quellen mit welchen man tiefer in die einzelnen Elemente eintauche kann.
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It is biased, ideological nonsense. The author does an excellent job in exposing the fraud for what it is.






