The 10 Big Lies About America

Author : Michael Medved
Publisher : Crown Forum
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307394071

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The 10 Big Lies About America by Michael Medved Pdf

"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 know that just ain’t so." In this bold New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country–in spite of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. The Big Lies exposed and dissected include: • America was founded on genocide against Native Americans. • The United States is uniquely guilty for the crime of slavery and built its wealth on stolen African labor. • Aggressive governmental programs offer the only remedy for economic downturns and poverty. • The Founders intended a secular, not Christian, nation. Each of the ten lies is a grotesque, propagandistic misrepresentation of the historical record. Medved’s witty, well-documented rebuttal supplies the ammunition necessary to fire back the next time somebody tries to recycle destructive distortions about our nation.

Author : Michael Medved
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Anti-Americanism
ISBN : 0307394069

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The 10 Big Lies about America by Michael Medved Pdf

Talk radio host Medved zeroes in on what he considers ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country-- in spite of facts to the contrary.

Author : Michael Medved
Publisher : Crown Forum
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307587473

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The 5 Big Lies About American Business by Michael Medved Pdf

WHY FEEL EMBARRASSED BY BUSINESS? Every American benefits every day from the phenomenal productivity of the free market, so why do so many people feel guilty or skeptical about our business system? In this passionately argued, eye-opening book, talk-radio star and bestselling author Michael Medved provides detailed and devastating rebuttals to the most widely circulated smears against capitalism. MYTH: Big business is bad, small business is good. TRUTH: Every big business began life as a small business, and every small business today yearns for enough success to become a big business tomorrow. For some products—like cars or electrical power—little companies can’t benefit their workers or customers as reliably as huge corporations. MYTH: Business executives are overpaid and corrupt. TRUTH: Top leaders will always command top dollar, and a company can’t limit executive pay without limiting its access to talent. Ferocious, long-term competition in the corporate world ultimately rewards focus and hard work, not short cuts and corruption. MYTH: You can count on better treatment from the government than from business. TRUTH: If a private company deals with you poorly, you can take your business elsewhere. But with the government’s power, you get only two choices: compliance or jail. Medved responds to business-bashing lies with the slashing wit, irrefutable facts, fascinating historical nuggets, illuminating anecdotes, and liberating clarity that made him one of the top-ten talk-radio hosts in the United States. This audacious and urgently needed book provides energy and inspiration for a beleaguered free-market system poised for its unstoppable comeback.

Author : Michael Medved
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0307464946

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The 5 Big Lies about American Business by Michael Medved Pdf

Challenges popular myths about the American corporate system, arguing that free-market businesses are responsible for providing today's food, medical care, and other necessities of life, offering contrary insights into topics ranging from globalization to corporate ethics.

Author : Joshua Holland
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780470912829

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The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy by Joshua Holland Pdf

AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economy Taxes kill growth. Labor unions hurt their members. Government regulation destroys jobs. These are just a few of the biggest lies in the web of misinformation spun by conservatives and the Chamber of Commerce. Holland's book dissects each malicious fiction to show how the Right is just plain wrong on the economy—wrong on jobs, wrong on the deficit, wrong on taxes, wrong on trade. Takes down old and new conservative myths about the economy, including healthcare, stimulus, progressive taxes, Wall Street regulation, and more Filled with recent quotes from conservative politicians and pundits, from the misleading to the laughable to the totally outrageous Tackles specific aspects of the Republicans' economic agenda, including their 2010 alternatives to Obama's budget Deftly written and rigorously documented by Alternet senior writer/editor Joshua Holland With the economy set to be the driving issue before and after the 2010 midterm elections, The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy sets the record straight on every part of the conservatives' economic agenda.

Author : Michael Medved
Publisher : Forum Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307464958

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The 5 Big Lies About American Business by Michael Medved Pdf

WHY FEEL EMBARRASSED BY BUSINESS? Every American benefits every day from the phenomenal productivity of the free market, so why do so many people feel guilty or skeptical about our business system? In this passionately argued, eye-opening book, talk-radio star and bestselling author Michael Medved provides detailed and devastating rebuttals to the most widely circulated smears against capitalism. MYTH: Big business is bad, small business is good. TRUTH: Every big business began life as a small business, and every small business today yearns for enough success to become a big business tomorrow. For some products—like cars or electrical power—little companies can’t benefit their workers or customers as reliably as huge corporations. MYTH: Business executives are overpaid and corrupt. TRUTH: Top leaders will always command top dollar, and a company can’t limit executive pay without limiting its access to talent. Ferocious, long-term competition in the corporate world ultimately rewards focus and hard work, not short cuts and corruption. MYTH: You can count on better treatment from the government than from business. TRUTH: If a private company deals with you poorly, you can take your business elsewhere. But with the government’s power, you get only two choices: compliance or jail. Medved responds to business-bashing lies with the slashing wit, irrefutable facts, fascinating historical nuggets, illuminating anecdotes, and liberating clarity that made him one of the top-ten talk-radio hosts in the United States. This audacious and urgently needed book provides energy and inspiration for a beleaguered free-market system poised for its unstoppable comeback.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620974933

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Lies Across America by James W. Loewen Pdf

A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807759486

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Teaching What Really Happened by James W. Loewen Pdf

“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.

Author : Andrew P. Napolitano
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781418584245

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Lies the Government Told You by Andrew P. Napolitano Pdf

YOU’VE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT We shrug off this fact as an unfortunate reality. America is the land of the free, after all. Does it really matter whether our politicians bend the truth here and there? When the truth is traded for lies, our freedoms are diminished and don’t return. In Lies the Government Told You, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano reveals how America’s freedom, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, has been forfeited by a government more protective of its own power than its obligations to preserve our individual liberties. “Judge Napolitano’s tremendous knowledge of American law, history, and politics, as well as his passion for freedom, shines through in Lies the Government Told You, as he details how throughout American history, politicians and government officials have betrayed the ideals of personal liberty and limited government." —Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX), from the Foreword

Author : Arnold Beichman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Radicalism
ISBN : 085657001X

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Nine Lies about America by Arnold Beichman Pdf

Author : Joe Conason
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312315619

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Big Lies by Joe Conason Pdf

A powerful rebuttal to the likes of Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, this is essential reading in an era of right-wing bullying and political conformity.

Author : Charles Lewis
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610391177

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935 Lies by Charles Lewis Pdf

Lewis reminds readers of the history of public dishonesty in the United StatesNfrom President Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam War cover-ups, to George W. Bush's rationale for military action in Iraq and AfghanistanNand how courageous investigative journalists stood up to power to bring truth to light.

Author : Майкл Медведь
Publisher : Liberty Publishing House
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628041767

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Десять лживых фактов об Америке (The 10 Big Lies About America) by Майкл Медведь Pdf

Майкл Медведь — адвокат, американский историк, политический обозреватель и кинокритик, автор многих популярных книг, а также многолетний ведущий ежедневной трехчасовой радиопрограммы по всей Америке. Его предки, выходцы из России, приехали в США в 1910 году. Его книга "10 Big Lies About America" мгновенно стала бестселлером Нью-Йорк Таймс и получила приз «Консервативного клуба Америки». Она вышла на русском языке в издательстве «Либерти» в формате Э-Книга под названием «10 лживых фактов об Америке. Борьба с искаженным образом нашего народа». Майкл Медведь любезно написал Предисловие к русскому изданию Либерти. В десяти главах Майкл разоблачает основные и принципиальные ложные утверждения об Америке, которые звучат, над баррикадами «мирных» протестующих в эти дни 2020 года. Прочитав эту книгу, вы сможете с гордостью достать из «широких штанин» свой паспорт и в полный голос заявить: «Я гражданин США!» и передать эти знания своим детям и внукам.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780743296281

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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Pdf

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Author : Larry Schweikart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440629303

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48 Liberal Lies About American History by Larry Schweikart Pdf

A historian debunks four-dozen PC myths about our nation's past. Over the last forty years, history textbooks have become more and more politically correct and distorted about our country's past, argues professor Larry Schweikart. The result, he says, is that students graduate from high school and even college with twisted beliefs about economics, foreign policy, war, religion, race relations, and many other subjects. As he did in his popular A Patriot's History of the United States, Professor Schweikart corrects liberal bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known. He challenges distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight common myths. A sample: • The founders wanted to create a wall of separation between church and state • Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers • Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima to intimidate the Soviets with atomic diplomacy • Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, was responsible for ending the Cold War America's past, though not perfect, is far more admirable than you were probably taught.