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Summary: Excellent Conservative Book
Review: This was an excellent, concise, and well written book. The book shows many of the lies liberals have spit over the years to make us look bad. This book an many other explain why the right wing is right, and the left knows it. The book explains many historical truths, for example Jefferson never had an affair with a slave. It was mudslinging of his opponents. "Laissez Faire,"
Chris
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Summary: A little clarification on Jefferson
Review: I am writing this just to clarify what was revealed by the DNA evidence with Thomas Jefferson. It was concluded that beyond a doubt a Jefferson impregnated Sally Hemmings. It could have been Thomas, or any of his brothers, cousins, sons, father, etc. With all the Jeffersons who surely visited Monticelo, it is impossible to say with any degree of certainty that T. Jefferson was indeed the father of Sally Hemmings's child. Although (insert opinion here) does it really matter? I think one of the most beautiful things about Thomas Jefferson was that he realized his wrongs and understood them as well as anyone else. He claimed that slavery was a trap for not only the slaves, but the slave holders! For him, slavery was an addiction that he could not and did not ever overcome. Read his writings some time and you will find this is true.
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Summary: A little clarification on Jefferson
Review: I am writing this just to clarify what was revealed by the DNA evidence with Thomas Jefferson. It was concluded that beyond a doubt a Jefferson impregnated Sally Hemmings. It could have been Thomas, or any of his brothers, cousins, sons, father, etc. With all the Jeffersons who surely visited Monticelo, it is impossible to say with any degree of certainty that T. Jefferson was indeed the father of Sally Hemmings's child. Although (insert opinion here) does it really matter? I think one of the most beautiful things about Thomas Jefferson was that he realized his wrongs and understood them as well as anyone else. He claimed that slavery was a trap for not only the slaves, but the slave holders! For him, slavery was an addiction that he could not and did not ever overcome. Read his writings some time and you will find this is true.
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Summary: This is a horrible book
Review: I do not recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning the truth about American History. Not So! does a horrible job of retelling completely unrelated historical "inaccuracies," however the book is written from an extremely biased perspective. First of all, the chapters are completely unrelated and there is no purpose to the book. More importantly, many of the alleged mistruths are in fact true (or at least debatable). This book reads more like a historical cover up for Right-wing Christians to feel good about themselves and their history. The author fails to address legitimate opposition to his claims, and relies almost completely upon contemporary sources, with little or no reference to primary (or even secondary) sources. I wish I could return this book and get my money back. It was horrible and inaccurate. If youwant to read an unbiased, purposeful, well-researched book read James Loewen's Lies my Teacher Told Me. This is a terse, unfulfilling, sorry excuse for a historical document.
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Summary: Biggest myth: This book has a conservative slant
Review: I don't understand some of the reviews. Conservative slant? Give me a break. Read between the lines, folks! Boller does as much preaching as he does educating. There are some interesting tidbits here, but I expected much more.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing"- Alexander Pope
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Summary: This book needs an update!
Review: I enjoyed reading this book, but I found its tone to be a little too smug; indeed, at least one entry needs an update. (Recently gathered DNA evidence proves Mr. Boller WRONG about his statements regarding Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings! Whoops!) The author's nose-in-the-air, smugness wears thin while reading entries based on quibbles, hair-splitting, and semantics. Boller isn't even in the same league with debunkers such as Loewen. Nevertheless, his theme is sound: Historians don't know all the answers, and they often form wrong conclusions. Perhaps Mr. Boller should remind readers that modesty/humility are good qualities worthy of practice, as well.
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Summary: One sided.
Review: I was disappointed in this book; the author cannot distance himself from his own bias. His history is fairy correct but he leans towards the left of most political situations and people, never quite obtaining a balance from both or more sides. I would hate to find this book in the school library under best history etc. or a 'must' read by some history teacher.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: More people need to read books like this. It is short sweet and full of interesting little know facts about US(North American) history.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Not So! is Paul Boller's attempt to uncover American myths. The porblem is that there seems to strict coherance to the book and mearl a collection of tales. Some of the stuff is actually interesting such as chapter 2 entitled 'Pre-Colombia America' about how things like warfar and environmental damage being caused by American Indians before European colonialization and chapter 33 called 'losing China' about how America did a pretty good attempt to prevent China from becoming the world's largest communist state. However, there are other chapters that are too obscure that take away from more of the serious chapters. Examples are chapter 8 called 'George Washinton's False Teeth' and chapter 16 entitled 'President Fillmore's Bathtub'. Overall, Not So! is OK but it could have been better if there was more cohesion.
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Summary: Hillary and the Indians
Review: This book is conservative Boller's cash cow. All he has to do is take grade school myths and "debunk" them using the encyclopedia. Who really thought Columbus was trying to prove that the world was round? Not since Kindergarten have I thought on such a precious issue. Only conservatives who rarely read books actually believe such things. To believe that Columbus was trying to prove the world round is also to believe it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and a big boat with a male and female of every species on the planet could fit onto the Titanic. Boller also intends to "prove" that the Indians were not "one with nature" but polluters and warmongers like us. Not so! America pollutes more than any other country in the world. Just because others did it doesn't mean it's right to kill people! We are the ones who used the bomb, people. In any case, the brainwashing is so thinly veiled as to be almost embarrassing, not that a conservative would be able to lift the wool from their eyes. In the very title we have his real thesis: "Clinton = questionable," and the chapters inside follow suit "environmental pollution = OK," "Hillary = lazy lesbian." Attention readers, leave it to the gullible students at the university where this guy teaches to sink their wooden teeth into questions of orthadontal history. A better book: Man rises from the dead: Not so! Man lives inside a whale: Not so! Frogs rain down from the sky: Not so! Man feeds a whorde of beachnicks with 10 fish: Not so!
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