TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woods,Thomas E.
TI  - 33 questions about American history you're not supposed to ask
SN  - 0307346692 (pbk.)
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Three Rivers Press
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Errors, inventions, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Hoaxes and history -- Did the founding fathers support immigration? -- Did Martin Luther King , Jr. oppose affirmative action? -- Were the American Indians really environmentalists? -- Were states' rights just code words for slavery and oppression? -- What was "the biggest unknown scandal of the Clinton years"? -- Was the "wild West" really so wild? -- How antiwar have American liberals really been over the years? -- Did the Iroquois indians influence the United States Constitution? -- Did desegregation of schools significantly narrow the Black-White educational achievement gap? -- Was the Civil War all about slavery, or was something else at stake as well? -- Can the President, on his own authority, send troops anywhere in the world he wants? -- Is it true that during World War II "Americans never had it so good"? -- How does social security really work? -- Was George Washington Carver really one of America's greatest scientific geniuses? -- Was the U.S. Constitution meant to be a "living, breathing" document that changes with the times? -- Did the pilgrims flourish in America thanks to Indian Agricultural wisdom? -- Who is most responsible for the "imperial presidency"? -- Is discrimination to blame for racial differences in income and job placement? -- Where did Thomas Jefferson's radical states' rights ideas come from? -- What really happened in the Whiskey Rebellion, and why will neither your textbook nor George Washington tell you? -- What made American wages rise? (hint: it wasn't unions or the government) -- Did capitalism cause the Great Depression? -- Did Herbert Hoover sit back and do nothing during the Great Depression? -- Did Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal lift the United States out of the Depression? -- Does the Constitution's commerce clause really grant the federal government the power to regulate all gainful activity? -- Can the federal governmen do whatever it thinks will provide for the "general welfare" of Americans? -- Does the Constitution really contain an "elastic clause"? -- Did the founding fathers believe juries could refuse to enforce unjust laws? -- Is the U.S. government too stingy with foreign aid (or not stingy enough)? -- Did labor unions make Americans more free? -- Should Americans care about historians' rankings of the presidents? -- Who was S.B. Fuller? -- Did Bill Clinton really stop a genocide in Kosovo? -- Conclusion: Schools and superstition
N2  - Libertarian author Woods sets the record straight with a provocative look at the hidden truths about our nation's history--the ones that have been buried because they're too politically incorrect to discuss. Woods draws on real scholarship--as opposed to the myths, platitudes, and slogans so many other "history" books are based on--to ask and answer tough questions about American history. Woods's eye-opening exploration reveals how much has been whitewashed from the historical record, overlooked, and skewed beyond recognition.--From publisher description
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