" Myth America's contributors take direct aim at the lies that are the lifeblood of the myths that grip American culture and politics today. "Julian Zelizer and Kevin Kruse marshal a fine array of historians for a bestselling assault on rightwing nonsense."- Guadian Cox - Eric Rauchway - Glenda Gilmore - Natalia Mehlman Petrzela - Lawrence B. Bell - Joshua Zeitz - Sarah Churchwell - Michael Kazin - Karen L. Conway - Ari Kelman - Geraldo Cadava - David A. Kruse - Erika Lee - Daniel Immerwahr - Elizabeth Hinton - Naomi Oreskes - Erik M.
With Essays By Akhil Reed Amar - Kathleen Belew - Carol Anderson - Kevin M.
Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential reading amid today's heated debates about our nation's past. Based on a firm foundation of historical scholarship, their findings revitalize our understanding of American history. The contributors debunk narratives that portray the New Deal and Great Society as failures, immigrants as hostile invaders, and feminists as anti-family warriors-among numerous other partisan lies. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperiling our democracy. Book Synopsis In this "incisive" ( Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation's past The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history.
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