Howard Zinn’s
A People’s History of the United States
has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach students that American history is nothing more than a litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation.
Zinn’s history is popular, but it is also massively wrong.
Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in her stunning new book
Debunking Howard Zinn
, which demolishes Zinn’s Marxist talking points that now dominate American education.
In
, you’ll learn, contra Zinn:
How Columbus was
not
a genocidal maniac, and was, in fact, a defender of Indians
Why the American Indians were
feminist-communist sexual revolutionaries ahead of their time
How the United States was founded to protect liberty,
white males’ ill-gotten wealth
Why Americans of the “Greatest Generation” were
the equivalent of Nazi war criminals
How the Viet Cong were
well-meaning community leaders advocating for local self-rule
Why the Black Panthers were
civil rights leaders
Grabar also reveals Zinn’s bag of dishonest rhetorical tricks: his slavish reliance on partisan history, explicit rejection of historical balance, and selective quotation of sources to make them say the exact opposite of what their authors intended. If you care about America’s past—and our future—you need this book.