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The 10 Big Lies About America
Michael Medved
Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
Crown Forum
November 2008
On Sale: November 18, 2008
288 pages ISBN: 0307394069 EAN: 9780307394064 Hardcover
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“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 and brilliantly argued book, 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 facts to the
contrary. In The 10 Big Lies About America, Medved
pinpoints the most pernicious pieces of America-bashing
disinformation that pollute current debates about the
economy, race, religion in politics, the Iraq war, and other
contentious issues.
The myths that Medved deftly
debunks include:
Myth: The United States is uniquely
guilty for the crime of slavery and based its wealth on
stolen African labor.
Fact: The colonies that became
the United States accounted for, at most, 3 percent of the
abominable international slave trade; the persistence of
slavery in America slowed economic progress; and the U.S.
deserves unique credit for ending slavery.
Myth: The
alarming rise of big business hurts the United States and
oppresses its people.
Fact: Corporations played an
indispensable role in building America, and corporate growth
has brought progress that benefits all with cheaper goods
and better jobs.
Myth: The Founders intended a
secular, not Christian, nation.
Fact: Even after
ratifying the Constitution, fully half the state governments
endorsed specific Christian denominations. And just a day
after approving the First Amendment, forbidding the
establishment of religion, Congress called for a national
“day of public thanksgiving and prayer” to acknowledge “the
many signal favors of Almighty God.”
Myth: A war on
the middle class means less comfort and opportunity for the
average American.
Fact: Familiar campaign rhetoric
about the victimized middle class ignores the overwhelming
statistical evidence that the standard of living keeps
rising for every segment of the population, as well as the
real-life experience of tens of millions of middle-class
Americans.
Each of the ten lies—widely believed among
elites and taught as truth in universities and public
schools—is a grotesque, propagandistic distortion of the
historical record. For everyone who is tired of hearing
America denigrated by people who don’t know what they’re
talking about, The 10 Big Lies About America supplies
the ammunition necessary to fire back the next time somebody
tries to recycle these baseless beliefs. Medved’s witty,
well-documented rebuttal is a refreshing reminder that as
Americans we should feel blessed, not burdened, by our heritage.
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