33 questions about American history you're not supposed to ask
By: Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Forum
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780307346681
Subjects: United States -- History -- Miscellanea; United States -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc
Genres: Miscellanea.
Other titles: Thirty-three questions about  American history you're not supposed to ask
Description: Libertarian author Woods sets the record straight with a provocative look at the hidden truths about our nation's history--the ones that have been buried because they're too politically incorrect to discuss. Woods draws on real scholarship--as opposed to the myths, platitudes, and slogans so many other "history" books are based on--to ask and answer tough questions about American history. Woods's eye-opening exploration reveals how much has been whitewashed from the historical record, overlooked, and skewed beyond recognition.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Did the founding fathers support immigration?; title: Did Martin luther king jr. oppose affirmative action?; title: Were the American indians really environmentalists?; title: Were states' rights just code words for slavery and oppression?; title: What was "the biggest unknown scandal of the Clinton years"?; title: How wild was the "wild West"?; title: How antiwar have American liberals really been over the years?; title: Did the Iroquois indians influence the United States Constitution?; title: Did desegregation of schools significantly narrow the Black-White educational achievement gap?; title: Was the Civil War all about slavery, or was something else at stake as well?; title: Can the President, on his own authority, send troops anywhere in the world he wants?; title: Is it true that during World War II "Americans never had it so good"?; title: How does social security really work?; title: Was George Washington Carver really one of America's greatest scientific geniuses?; title: Was the U.S. Constitution meant to be a "living, breathing" document that changes with the times?; title: Did Indian wisdom help the pilgrims grow corn?; title: Who is most responsible for the "imperial presidency"?; title: Is discrimination to blame for racial differences in income and job placement?; title: Where did Thomas Jefferson's radical states' rights ideas come from?; title: What really happened in the Whiskey Rebellion, and why will neither your textbook nor George Washington tell you?; title: What made American wages rise? (hint: it wasn't unions or the government); title: Did capitalism cause the Great Depression?; title: Did Herbert Hoover sit back and do nothing during the Great Depression?; title: Did Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal lift the United States out of the Depression?; title: Does the Constitution's commerce clause really grant the federal government the power to regulate all gainful activity?; title: Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to do whatever it thinks will provide for the "general welfare" of Americans?; title: Does the Constitution really contain an "elastic clause" that gives the federal government additional, unspecified powers?; title: Did the founding fathers believe juries could refuse to enforce unjust laws?; title: What do foreign-aid programs have to show for themselves?; title: Did labor unions make Americans more free?; title: Should Americans care about historians' rankings of the presidents?; title: Who was S.B. Fuller?; title: Did Bill Clinton really stop a genocide in Kosovo?