Read
the below link. If you or anyone you know has children in school you
need to let them know that if this book is used (and it is widely used),
it is nothing but a propaganda piece. Lobby to get it replaced with a
real history book. Why? Because the author was an admitted socialist
and wanted to turn the US into a socialist country by rewriting
history. His main targets were the minds of children in public schools
and students attending colleges and universities. I briefly mention Dr.
Howard Zinn in my
book "Our Dying Republic". On page 49 I quoted him as saying "If you
can control history, what people know about it, if you can decide what's
in a people's history and what's left out, you can order their
thinking. You can order their values. You can, in effect, organize
their brains by controlling their knowledge. The people who can do
that, who control the past, are the people who control the present."
The author of the article
provides a summary of the book by Dr. Oscar Handlin of Harvard
University. "The book is full of errors and deliberate distortions, as
Handlin noted in The American Scholar, and these are not
limited to minor issues. Zinn misrepresents everything from slavery in
the Chesapeake colonies to American involvement in Cuba to the Tet
offensive."
And this is a quote by the author of the article. "Zinn himself described A People’s History
as 'a biased account,' that bias being in favor of socialism, a
political tendency that Zinn favored and thought would be popular but
for the fact that 'the Soviet Union gave it a bad name.' Mao Zedong and
Fidel Castro didn’t help much, either, though Zinn had kind words for
their revolutions."
Do you think such a person should
have his history book used to mislead, misguide, manipulate and
poison the minds of our children? I don't! I applaude Governor
Daniels' efforts to have it removed from schools in the state of
Indiana.
George Burns
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