I'd like to imagine this book was written in response to seeing Peoples History on The Sopranos
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In a review in the conservative magazine National Review, Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation wrote that "A Patriot's History rejects the economic determinism of Beard and Zinn, and others who 'wrongly assume that people were (and are) incapable of acting outside of self-interest.'"
Isn't this their fucking arguement for why communism won't work lmao
A history book calling it Columbus's "discovery"
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The Wall Street Journal said the book serves to "remind us what a few good individuals can do in just a few short centuries.
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Lol isn't a peoples history an attempt to highlight and bring forth marginalized stories and histories that are largely left out of mainstream historical revisionist texts that focus on the 'winners'?
I feel like a patriots history would just be a boring retelling of the history we were taught in middle school (native Americans had a lovely supper with colonists etc)
Right it's not some radical book. It's just telling stories we like to conveniently ignore. The book is facts. The only criticisms I see from the right are that a) it's not true (which is made by chuds who just don't know history at all), or b) it's bad because it only "focuses on the bad" and trying to portray America as bad. No thought given to whether America actually is bad, because we just have to assume that and not question it....
Well they rationalize the Leftists critique as revisionism (I've seen them using that phrasing). I know historians don't think a People's History is a great historical text cause it only focuses on one side, but... that's kind of he point haha.
The chuds are too lost in the sauce to do anything remotely close to critiquing America's actions
Right, they say "revisionism" but to them that really means it's something that challenges what they believe but they don't want to think about it.
I had this book back when I was a dipshit chud. The most memorable dumb shit I read in it was the sorta justification for slavery not being a racist institution was that there were also black slave owners in the south.
While fascinating to learn the history of these scum, I'm sure we can all agree this books fucking cringe as fuck.
Also I burnt the book with a bunch of Hannity, Limbaugh, etc chud books, when the heater at my place blew out in the middle of winter and I relied on my fireplace to stay warm. They burned with the energy of the fires of hell and I loved every second of it.
