Rating College History Textbooks, Part III

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Vladimir Lenin  

This is the third of three columns in which I rate various history textbooks according to the degree of leftwing bias they demonstrate. In Part I, I discuss the text books America’s Promise, The American Journey, and Nation of Nations In Part II I review American Destiny and Making a Nation. Today’s column is on the two worst offenders, number two and number one on the propaganda scale:  Eric Foner’s Give Me Liberty and Howard Zinn’s absurd A People’s History of the United States.

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