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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780307394064 ISBN: 0307394069 Label: Crown Forum Manufacturer: Crown Forum Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2008-11-18 Publisher: Crown Forum Release Date: 2008-11-18 Studio: Crown Forum
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Liked it, however Comment: The idea that America should get credit for ending slavery is simply not true. I did like the book overall. Mexico had ended slavery in the Americas first due to fighting the Spanairds who had in turn enslaved them. As a matter of fact that was one of the reasons Mexico sent troops to stop the revolts on Mexican soil (Texas) because the ex-American patriots wanted their RIGHT to own slaves which the Mexicans really didn't care for after having fought off the Spainards to end their own slavery. Customer Rating: Summary: Must READ!! Comment: This should be required reading in all venues. It is refreshing to read some actual facts and a good counterpoint to the hype the media loves to put out. Customer Rating: Summary: Ha ha ha! Comment: 10 Big Lies About America. This was whining but I liked it. To be honest, I'm having trouble finding really GREAT books to read since I switched to my Kindle. The most engrossing read so far has been "Diary of a Lost Girl," the memoir by Osama Bin Laden's mistress/sex slave Kola Boof and the fact that I originally didn't believe her story shocks me now that I read the book. I hated when that book ended, it was surprisingly thorough, very well written and fantastically entertaining, mainly because of the author's blunt candor. So if you want Medved's same political views but from an African immigrant who loves America with good reason in better detail as to WHY then you might want to sample that book. Anybody know any other really GREAT books they've read on their Kindle, post 'em! Customer Rating: Summary: Rant-O-Rama Comment: "The 10 Big Lies About America" taught as truth on Talk Radio and Fixed Noise is a grotesque, propagandistic distortion of the historical record. And how's this for a doozie of a distortion? "the U.S. deserves unique CREDIT for ending slavery." Yeah. Right Michael. How long again after Britain banned slavery did that happen in the US? Where does the 'credit' part come in? Customer Rating: Summary: tilting at windmills Comment: Medved is a good writer and has done his research for this book. Unfortunately I take issue with the entire premise of the book, which is that these 10 lies of his are everywhere, are inarguably pervasive in our culture, and must be undone to save America. Medved takes a good first step in fighting these concepts by revising them to sound as extreme as possible. I don't know anyone who has spoken any of these opposing statements, or supports any of the very extreme views that he quotes in his book. He creates the all-too-familiar conservative podium that we the conservative people are under attack and must fight to survive etc etc. But he represents the opposition opinion in a way that the common person couldn't possibly agree with them; it's a "DISTORTION" of other peoples opinion, and 'distorting' is something the book warns against and accuses other of repeatedly. I got this book as a gift and hadn't heard of Medved before this. I could tell right from the title though what I was in for: "BIG LIES", these are the "TOP 10" of them, and in this book is the artillery you will need to "COMBAT" these "DESTRUCTIVE" lies about our country. Well, the arguments he makes are good ones, very solid, but he's arguing against self-crafted extreme viewpoints. Two BIG lies I hear spread throuhg our country are, "socialist ideas can only be bad for America", and "everyone in America has an equal chance to succeed." I guess that's someone elses book though. If you're a conservative and you want to bring this to your book club, it's a great choice; you'll whoop and pat eachother on the back a lot and only distance yourselves further from your fellow Americans. But if you're an average American whose ideas are dynamic and have variance, you'll just feel accused and disconnected from this conservative combat manual. If given the choice, I'd pass. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: “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.