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“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we realize that just ain’t so.”
In this striking and brilliantly argued e book, acclaimed publisher and talk-radio variety Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the largest fallacies that an incredible number of Americans believe about our country—regardless of incontrovertible facts to the contrary. In The 10 Big Lies About America, Medved pinpoints the most pernicious pieces of America-bashing disinformation that pollute current debates about the economy, race, religion in politics, the Iraq conflict, and other contentious issues.
The misconceptions that Medved deftly debunks include:
Myth: The United States is uniquely guilty for the offense of slavery and established its riches on stolen African labor.
Fact: The colonies that became america accounted for, at most, 3 percent of the abominable international slave trade; the persistence of slavery in the us slowed economic progress; and the U.S. deserves unique credit for stopping slavery.
Myth: The alarming climb of big business hurts america and oppresses its people.
Fact: Corporations enjoyed an indispensable role in building America, and commercial growth has taken progress that benefits all with cheaper goods and better careers.
Myth: The Founders intended a secular, not Christian, nation.
Fact: Even after ratifying the Constitution, totally half their state governments endorsed specific Christian denominations. And just a day after approving the First Amendment, forbidding the establishment of religion, Congress called for a nationwide “day of open public thanksgiving and prayer” to recognize “the countless signal favors of Almighty God.”
Myth: A conflict on the center course means less comfort and chance of the average North american.
Fact: Familiar campaign rhetoric about the victimized middle class ignores the overpowering statistical data that the typical of living retains rising for every segment of the populace, as well as the real-life connection with tens of an incredible number of middle-class People in the usa.
Each of the ten lays—widely presumed among elites and trained as real truth in colleges and public colleges—is a grotesque, propagandistic distortion of the historical record. For everybody who is sick and tired of experiencing America denigrated by people who don’t know very well what they’re talking about, The 10 Big Lies About America supplies the ammunition essential to fire back the next time somebody will try to recycle these baseless values. Medved’s witty, well-documented rebuttal is a rejuvenating reminder that as People in the usa we should feel blessed, not burdened, by our heritage.
