Myth America
Historians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past
Historians debunk enduring myths about the American past.
Edited by historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, Myth America gathers essays in which leading scholars take on widely believed but mistaken claims about United States history, from immigration and the Southern Strategy to socialism, feminism, and voter fraud. Each contributor tackles a single myth and corrects the record with evidence. Aimed at a general reader, it pushes back against how political narratives distort the past.
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Mehdi Hasan
There's nothing I enjoy more in the world of nonfiction than a good debunking, and in this volume, two of our most prominent, eloquent, and outspoken historians, Princeton's Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer, assemble an Avengers-style team.
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