In a new book, Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer assemble a team of fellow historians to push. Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential reading amid today’s heated debates about our nation’s past. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation. In Kruse’s chapter on the history of the Southern strategy the Republican Party’s deliberate effort to bring white Southerners to its side as the Democratic Party grew more active in support of. New book Myth America examines misinformation in U.S.

Inspired by a virus of disinformation, authors Kruse and Zelizer assemble a team of historians to tackle twenty of the most pressing distortions of the past. 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. Based on a firm foundation of historical scholarship, their findings revitalize our understanding of American history. Myth America is a very interesting book of essays by lead historians on some of the biggest myths of America. In Myth America, Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation.

Zelizer (Author) 328 ratings 1 Best Seller in Historical Essays See all formats and editions Kindle 18.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Listen Free to Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past audiobook by Kevin M. The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. 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. Kevin Michael Kruse Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past Hardcover Januby Kevin M. America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past

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