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For the last century, many intellectuals and activists responsible for shaping the way we think about sex, crime, government, and even our very history have been fabricating the facts. And yet they have been published, praised, promoted, and protected by a cultural establishment that has its agendas advanced by disinformation, half-truths, and lies.

As a student of American intellectual history, Cashill has come to see that much of what is taught about the last century is not merely biased but knowingly false. A Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue, and a former Fulbright professor in France, Cashill has taught at several American universities and knows all too well the spin and dissembling of the academic world and public debate.

In this sensational and essential book, Cashill tells the stories behind the fraud and reveals an unsettling pattern of institutional and cultural deception. With wide scope and fine-point scrutiny, Hoodwinked finally and definitively exposes the intellectual elite's trumpery?from unwitting self-deception to conscious manipulation of data, from the merely false to the purely fraudulent?and is the perfect antidote for the corrosive disinformation that has poisoned our society, culture, and understanding of the world at large.

Norm Chomsky is one of America's best known public intellectuals, the nation's self-appointed conscience. And, says Arthur Schlesinger, "it has long been impossible to believe anything he says." The bigger problem is that the same?and worse?can be said for much of America's cultural elite, and Jack Cashill exposes them all.

The sexual revolution. Alfred Kinsey encouraged the sexual torture of small boys. Masters and Johnson created an imiainary heterosexual AIDS crisis. Planned Parenthood buried margaret Sanger's plan to sterilize the racially and genetically "impure."

Multiculturalism. Mumia is guilty. Alex Haley's Roots was almost pure fraud. Edward Said grew up a wealthy American, not a persecuted palestinian refugee. University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill faked his identity as Native American and much of his scholarship on genocide. And Michael Moore? He faked just about everything.

Marxism. The New York Times' Waltar Duranty won a Pulitzer for denying Stalin's holocaust. Lillian Hellman papered over the communist sabotage of Hollywood with lies. Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs were guilty as geese.

Radical Naturalism. Rachel Carson's bogus case against DDT has killed millions needlessly. Overpopulation alarmists predicted worldwide famines before 1999 and were honored for their insights. Neo-Darwinians have been faking their proofs for a century in textbooks and getting away with it.

Hoodwinked is a powerful and devastating book that exposes the myriad lies and half-truths that America's progressive elite has used to hijack an entire culture.

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Jack Cashill has written for The WSJ, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, and regularly in the American Thinker and WorldNetDaily. Recent books include Hoodwinked, Sucker Punch, and What’s The Matter With California. Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue.

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ASIN : B007V93TO2
Publisher : Thomas Nelson; Illustrated edition (July 20, 2009)
Publication date : July 20, 2009
Language : English
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Print length : 315 pages
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- #872 in Political Conservatism & Liberalism

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Sean Gangol

I Agreed with the Author for the Most Part

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2020

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I thought the author was spot on for the most part. I liked how he showed several examples of how certain people create false narratives to achieve victim status among those in academia. I have always thought that Alfred Kinsley was full of it, but he was actually responsible for carrying out studies that were not only immoral, but downright despicable and I would even go as far to say evil. Though what I really disagreed with the author on was his assessment of Darwin's theory of evolution. I have never understood why Christians in this day and age feel so threatened by evolution. I would hate to break it to them, but overwhelming evidence proves that it happened and is continuing to this day. Also, I have always thought it was intellectually dishonest to blame everything from eugenics to the holocaust to just about every other form of social Darwinism on the theory of evolution. None of these things really have anything at all to do with Darwin's theory. It would be like blaming Jesus for the Spanish Inquisition.

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Machinery's Handbook

Could have been Interesting, but turned out to be badly flawed

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2019

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This assemblage anecdotes of modern intellectual ignorance held my interest until he ran the ship on the rocks by trying to lump Darwin in with proven hoaxes such as the innocence of Alger Hiss, Walter Duranty's false reporting, Alex Haley's fictional "Roots", and invented autobiography of Edward Said. Following up with the accounts of how intellectuals still cannot acknowledge Margaret Mead's monumental incompetence, and how the bizzarro Kinsey/Masters "research" changed our public morals for the worse, does not fully redeem him.

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Kevin Moore

An insightful look into the frauds who have shaped our culture

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2020

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I really found it interesting how many liberal icons were such frauds and once established in the reining zeitgeist how resistant the media or their contemporaries are to admit “ the emperor had no clothes” and how bogus their research really was (Margaret Mead,Kinsey) or like Sanger promoting eugenics.

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A C Mason

read section on Alger Hiss

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020

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read section on Alger Hiss the mainstream media is today what is was then

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Lmeta

Awesome book.

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2017

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Everyone should read this book and make their own decision about our current state of affairs.

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john c. hoppe

offers important insights re: weakness of revisiting and revizing out of context

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2020

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Valuable access to understanding errors of judgment when the original setting/context is gone.

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Duncan Long

An Excellent Read

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2005

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This is one of those books that everyone interested in how government works, and history books are written, and news rooms run, should read. Cashill goes into the nitty gritty of how politically correct expedients have given the truth a back seat in news reports as well as history books and university classrooms.

Nor is truth the only casualty in many US institutions and media outlets. Cashill also details how spin and policies actually cost lives through "eco-colonialism," with just one of these "big lies" having killed millions of people worldwide (all with almost no comment on the part of the American press). And it is still getting people killed even today.

All Cashill's facts are carefully documented and cleverly detailed in what is as entertaining to read as it is chilling to consider. In short, this is a must-read book for those wanting to know the truth about what has been going on behind the scenes in America over the last few decades.

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Russell A. Rohde MD

"Progressives...Masters of Propaganda"

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2005

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"Hoodwinked:...", Jack Cashill, TN, Nelson Current, 2005 ISBN 1-5955-5011-9, HC 300 pgs. & 7 pgs. Index, 9 1/2" x 6 1/4".

The book is more than interesting: -- its educative & endeavors to re-educate T.C. MITS, "The Common Man in the Street" of diverse weighty published facts & truths either taught in schools or broadcast by radio, TV or diverse books & papers, etc., & handed down as gospel but which emanated from fraud, fiction, fantasy, or flimsy research.

Cashill identifies "the usual suspects" as progressives, left wing extremists, socialists, Marxists & the like who are most commonly vociferous, antagonistic, conniving, scheming anti-religious, agnostic Darwinists with agendas oft well disguised as "for the common good of Man."

Heavy on name-dropping, he anecdotes plaudits of "notables" as Ward Churchill, Edward Said, Eric Blair, Noam Chomsky, Rachel Carson, Paul Erlich, Earnst Haeckel, Alger Hiss, Lillian Hellman, Michael Moore, Willi Munsenberg, Margaret Mead, Ruth Sanger, Aldred Kinsey, the ACLU, & many, many more including those in Hollywood & politics (J. Kerry, H. Clinton): -- citing bolstering evidence for the challenges. Cashill is quick to point out that once "icons" have been established by the "media", it's well-nigh

unrealizable to even access a footing or a forum for challenge, -- once again supporting my favorite dictum: -- "it takes a King to unseat a King".

The book uses a pretentious "affected" writing style generating friction to read, it patronizes his own agenda of religious right-wing conservatism - & includes much essaying that is/has been in the public domain for some time. To his defense, however, his commentary on religion & conservatism is well taken. It is convenient to have the cited "untruths" set down in a single exposition, there being several I'd challenge. The 25 pgs. of Endnotes & Index makes it useful as a reference.

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Paul Marks

Brilliant - but profoundly upsetting.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2011

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Jack Cashill shows that many of the "great books" and "great thinkers" of 20th century American life were not just guilty of honest mistakes - but of blatent fraud, that they lied (often lied in the very works that made them famous). That their works - which were the foundation of so many other works and so much education (both at school and university level) and cultural comment in the media, were based on lies.

And Cashill shows something even worse. That when the lies were exposed - that when overwhelming evidence was presented to show that the "intellectual" giants had feet of clay, the academic and media elite closed ranks. That far from being the seekers of truth they claim to be - the academics and the media personalities just tried to protect the repuation of various "Progressive" people, because they shared their political or social opinions.

This book is not really the story of a few corrupt individuals - it shows a corrupt culture. And as an American Jack Cashill is clealry deeply concerned about the corruption of cultural institutions (schools, universities, mass media.....) in his country. For example, the British BBC (itself made up of people mostly on the left of politics) will show documentaries exposing the lies (and other misdeeds) of American Progressives - but the American media will not, and American schools and universities are also silent on the lies and other misdeeds of American Progressives.

It is not really just a matter of politics (if it was - the liberal/left BBC would be silent also) it is a matter of basic honesty, of the moral corruption that has eaten away at the basic cultural institutions in the United States.

I have one critical comment to make...

In his section on fraud in the area of biological evolution (the only section where Cashill really examines nonAmericans as well as Americans) Jack Cashill implies something that is not true.

Cashill does not formally dispute evolution (he confines himself to attacking claims to prove it - when those claims are based upon fraud), but he does imply (although does not formally state) that one must choose between Christian faith and a belief in theory of evolution.

It is perfectly true that many athiests have believed in evolution - but it is also true that many sincere and traditional Christians believe in evolution also. And that has always been true - for example the authors of the early 20th century essays on the "fundementals" of the Christian faith (from which we get the term "fundementalist") included scientists who firmly believed in evolution - although this is a fact that has been forgotten by both sides in the evolution debate.

More importantly by implying (I repeat - he does not formally state this) that one must choose between evolution and religion, Cashill actually plays into the hands of athiests. Not just the dishonest athiest he despises - but honest athiests also.

This is because a lot of the evidence for evolution is certainly NOT based upon fraud - indeed the scientific world (not just in the United States - but in every other nation as well) is overwhelmingly united in support of the theory of evolution.

So by implying (in this small, but unfortunate, section of the book) that one must choose between religion and evolution, Cashill is really saying (although he does not know it) that one must choose between religion and science, between religion and reason.

And that is unfortunate (and FALSE) thing to imply.

Hunsworth Exile

The book reveals the duplicity of "progressive" ideologues, who ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2015

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The book reveals the duplicity of "progressive" ideologues, who have subverted the truth in order to advance their cause. Cashill lifts a curtain on their biographical histories and details the deceptions they have employed. Some of them are household names. Their words and works have caused immense damage to society and in certain cases continue to do so, even to the extent of thousands of lives needlessly sacrificed in pursuit of a man-made utopia.

The reader will be shown just how weak are the factual foundations of some of the theories and ideas that shape our modern world.

Mr. S. Somerton

Though clearly and understandably written for an American audience the ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2015

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Though clearly and understandably written for an American audience the stories and themes deconstructed are familiar enough for a British reader (well this one at least) to find fascinating and revealing. I look forward to the day a British journalist (do we still have those) will have the courage to deconstruct some of our own Sorelian myths

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