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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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Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach students that American history is nothing more than a litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation.

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.


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“It’s about time someone published a comprehensive answer to Howard Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States, which is the Mein Kampf of the Hate America Left…. Mary Grabar has done Americans and the freedoms they have championed a great service by writing a definitive exposure of Zinn’s treasonous life, along with a damning refutation of his dishonest, malignant, and ignorant work.” -- David Horowitz ― founder of Students for Academic Freedom and the David Horowitz Freedom Center

“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

About the Author

Mary Grabar is a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and the founder of the Dissident Prof Education Project. She taught at the college level for twenty years, most recently at Emory University, and her work has been published by The Federalist, Townhall, FrontPage Magazine, City Journal, American Greatness, and Academic Questions.

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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
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Finally...Someone Crushes Howard Zinn and Exposes His Damaging Fraudulent Narrative
Zinn's zealous desire to cast a light on what he considered historic injustice turned into a crusade built on secondary sources of questionable provenance, omission of exculpatory evidence, leading questions and shaky connections between evidence and conclusions. This book exposes many of Zinn's flawed conclusions and is a damning response to much of the damage which Zinn's book has created, and continues to perpetuate, through our education system. Now, if this could only replace Zinn's original work, maybe a generation of students and historians could be freed from the false narrative currently gripping academia and many of the pseudo-intelligentsia in today's political circles.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2019
The title of this book doesn't do justice to the remarkable content, and certainly limits readership. That is very unfortunate since this should be a required book to read for all public school teachers, legislators, politicians, parents, professors, celebrities, activists, and media personalities. Most likely only conservative-minded people will read it. That's a shame because those are not the ones who need to read it - unless they only want to validate their own tendencies to reject modern revisionist narratives. This book is remarkably well-done. It's too bad only some will read it and know the truth. Meanwhile, false narratives continue to be what students and the general public hear. I've spent time in the Dominican Republic, and know the people still think quite highly of Christopher Columbus because they have their own historical records, and memories passed down through the generations. They are not contaminated by the false histories perpetuated by Americans who make money generating hate - all based on lies - not facts. It's too bad most Americans have been steered to believe untruths about our rich and wonderful history. This book restores common sense to American history by actually reviewing the historical data, unadulterated. I'm deeply grateful I read this book. It was a wise investment, and it's a great one to have in your personal library so you can teach the truth to the generations to come.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2019
This is an extraordinarily well researched and written book about an absolutely vital subject: the radical activist whose book, A People’s History of the United States, has arguably had a more malign influence than any published in this country in the last fifty years. As Grabar spells out in detail, Zinn’s object was never to tell the truth about America’s past, or even necessarily to correct what he considered flaws in previous histories; it was to discredit those responsible for America’s greatness and to turn the country’s young into committed leftist ideologues. And in this, as we know, he has succeeded beyond any possible expectation. Indeed, his viewpoint — that America is a racist, sexist hellhole, build on exploitation and murder; that it’s very Founders we’re themselves neck deep in this criminal enterprise — is today accepted as gospel in classrooms and texts at all levels in this country. Grabar shows that Zinn’s “scholarship” was not only deeply ideological, but a sham even on its own terms; often as not, when he wasn’t playing fast and loose with the facts, he was lifting the work of others. Yet for all this, he is an object of veneration in the contemporary educational community.
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2024
Had no idea this level of depravity from Zinn was being used in schools and universities. Grabar does a good job dismantling the lies of Howard Zinn.

Would buy again, this needs to be in the hands of every parent that has a school age kid.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2024
I just finished reading "Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America" by Mary Grabar. Zinn wrote "A People's History of the United States". Zinn's book is in academic libraries across America. It's required reading in a lot of high schools and universities. Zinn's book is complete bunk from beginning to end. I have read large passages from Zinn's book before reading "Debunking" by Grabar. I knew Zinn's book was anti-American. But now I'm shocked as I contemplate that Zinn's book is accepted as truth and is taught so across academia. It's shocking. Grabar illustrates page after page where Zinn lied, plagiarized, omitted crucial segments of his quotes from historical authors, and completely misrepresented stories. It's mind-blowing. I thought he was just biased. I had no idea he lied so deeply about so much. From the beginning of the new world and beyond the Vietnam era, he never told the truth about any of it. Yet, his work is heralded as the "real American history." If by chance your child or college student is reading this garbage and you need some back-up, read "Debunking Howard Zinn" by Mary Grabar and save your child from being indoctrinated.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2022
Zinn was a Polemic. His Communist obsession distorted any chance to champion Capitalism for a Free people as he spewed his poison to generations. Anyone who attends meetings five days out of seven is bound to become brainwashed, Zinn was. To cut and paste others words to fit his one view narrative is quite frankly deceptive and dishonest. But the Commie's adhere to, the ends justify the means. Given where we are today 2022 with Covid19 tyranny, and our Constitutional abuses. I note credit for Zinn's alarm of a greedy corporate threat to the Republic. Today we have a Predator Capitalism that has roared into Fascism, albeit with the directives/capture by the CCP. The orchestration and takeover of Public Education to become Public Indoctrination by school boards & teacher's unions. Have ushered in these Marxist-Commie Zinn exploits and clearly diminished the IQ of current and future generations. Social justice, gender identity, pronouns, etc., have Nothing to do with an academic education. Rather these are tools of seduction for the Marxist ideology. Great read and well researched. I do wish the author had addressed the False Flag coup's of countries guised to save us from Communism with a greater motive being economic benefit of the power elites. Its the corruption by people that taints America not the idea of America and the beacon of light it casts across the world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Real history
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2022
This is REAL historical analysis rather than the ideological driven polemic which is the subject of her excellent, and sourced, chapter by chapter debunking. Mary Grabar does all students of history a great service in this wonderful book. A must read.
Silly G
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book.
Reviewed in Canada on January 1, 2020
Excellent job by Mary Grabar. This book shows the lies and manipulations that Howard Zinn's book is full of. He wanted people to hate America and he perverted history to do it. Imagine if someone were to right a 'Peoples History of Africa/Middle East/India/Asia', etc', type of book as Zinn did with America. You would not have to make up anything, all the slavery, genocide, rape, oppression, corruption,etc would be real. Zinn did not give America a fair shake at all. And Zinn ignores all the amazing good America does and has done. All those other countries are still practicing slavery and often still have genocides, but Zinn does not want anyone to realize that. America has sent Billions of dollars, doctor's, medicine, food and protection to all those countries that still practice the worst forms of oppression. Time to start keeping score, time to stop apologizing. I once had an Indian friend attack Canada as evil,oppressive and racist. I reminded him of all the slaves, Untouchables, and child rape that occurs in India today and in the past, and all the programs Canada has to help Indian Immigrants, he had no comment on that. Nearly every nation on earth has a Native population, can you guess which countries offer their Natives land, free school, tax breaks, jobs? It is U.S.A., Canada and Australia. In the Middle East they kill the Yazidis, lets compare how the natives are treated here compared to everywhere else. Criticism to the U.S.A. should always be answered with "lets keep score, lets compare us to other countries".Great book, read it.
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Andre Gerard
5.0 out of 5 stars Der Titel ist Programm!
Reviewed in Germany on December 15, 2019
Anders als der Amazon Kunde welcher dieses Buch mit 2 Sternen bewärtet hat, muss ich dieses Buch loben.
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.
Die Rezessioun des Amazon Kunden lässt mich glauben dass die Person das Buch nicht gelesen hat und nur eine negative Bewertung abgeben wollte!
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Reviewed in Australia on August 30, 2019
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Gerhardt Blume
5.0 out of 5 stars The fraud exposed
Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2021
Far too many people, including educators, are under the serious misapprehension that Howard Zinn offers history.

It is biased, ideological nonsense. The author does an excellent job in exposing the fraud for what it is.