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As he did in his popular "A Patriot's History of the United States," Schweikart corrects liberal bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known. He challenges distorted books by name and debunks 48 common myths.

Lie #1: The First Presidents Intended for the United States to Be Isolationist	p. 13
Lie #2: The Mexican and Spanish-American Wars Were Imperialist Efforts Drummed Up by "Corporate Interests"	p. 19
Lie #3: FDR Knew in Advance About the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor	p. 23
Lie #4: Harry Truman Ordered the Atomic Bombing of Japan to Intimidate the Soviets with "Atomic Diplomacy"	p. 29
Lie #5: John F. Kennedy Was Killed by LBJ and a ... MORE	p. 35
Lie #6: Richard Nixon Expanded the Vietnam War	p. 40
Lie #7: The "Peace Movement" Activists Were Not Dupes of the KGB	p. 44
Lie #8: Ronald Reagan Knew "Star Wars" Wouldn't Work but Wanted to Provoke a War with the USSR	p. 48
Lie #9: Mikhail Gorbachev, Not Ronald Reagan, Was Responsible for Ending the Cold War	p. 53
Lie #10: September 11 Was Not the Work of Terrorists: It Was a Government Conspiracy	p. 57
Lie #11: No Terrorists or Weapons of Mass Destruction Were Hiding in Iraq	p. 61
Lie #12: The Founders Envisioned a "Wall of Separation" Between Church and State, Keeping Religious Influence Out of Government	p. 69
Lie #13: Thomas Jefferson Favored "Small Government" and Was a Pacifist	p. 75
Lie #14: Women Had No Rights in Early America	p. 78
Lie #15: Restrictions on the Right to Vote Kept Voter Participation Low	p. 83
Lie #16: Prohibition Was Unpopular from the Beginning and Failed in All Its Objectives	p. 86
Lie #17: Sacco and Vanzetti Were Innocent and Wrongly Executed	p. 90
Lie #18: Senator Joseph McCarthy Concocted the "Red Scare," and There Was Nothing to Fear from Communist Subversives	p. 94
Lie #19: The Rosenbergs Were Not Spies and Were Wrongfully Executed	p. 99
Lie #20: Lee Harvey Oswald Shot JFK Because He Was a Deranged Marine, Not Because He Was a Communist	p. 103
Lie #21: Columbus Was Responsible for Killing Millions of Indians	p. 106
Lie #22: The Early Colonies Were Intolerant and Racist	p. 109
Lie #23: Early America Was Home to Few Guns or Gun Owners	p. 113
Lie #24: Abraham Lincoln Only Freed the Slaves to Beef Up His Troop Strength	p. 119
Lie #25: The Scopes Trial Proved That Darwin Was Correct and Christians Were Backward	p. 125
Lie #26: The 1950s Were Dull and Boring and Created a Generation of Conformists in the Workplace and Home	p. 130
Lie #27: Richard Nixon Sent Burglars into the Watergate Office Complex	p. 134
Lie #28: Neither Ronald Reagan's Election nor the "Contract with America" Proved the Triumph of Conservative Ideas	p. 139
Lie #29: Bill Clinton Was Impeached over Sex	p. 143
Lie #30: George W. Bush Was Selected, Not Elected, in 2000, and Votes Were Stolen on His Behalf	p. 149
Lie #31: Muslim Terrorists Are Poor and Uneducated and Hate Us Because We Support Israel	p. 156
Lie #32: The News Media Is Objective, Fair, and Balanced - and Always Has Been	p. 160
Lie #33: Native Americans Were Great Environmentalists, While White Settlers Destroyed the Buffalo	p. 166
Lie #34: The First Thanksgiving Took Place Because the Indians Saved the Puritans from Their Own Ineptitude	p. 173
Lie #35: The "Robber Barons" Pillaged the Land and Destroyed the Environment	p. 177
Lie #36: Federal Regulators Have Protected the Public's Health by Identifying Harmful Products	p. 180
Lie #37: Global Warming Is a Fact, and It's a Man-made, American-Driven Problem	p. 185
Lie #38: The Constitution Was the Creation of "Elites" Protecting Their Financial Interests	p. 190
Lie #39: Northern Capitalist Greed - Not Slavery - Drove the Civil War	p. 194
Lie #40: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act Protected the "Little Guy" and Reined in "Big Business"Abuses	p. 197
Lie #41: The Transcontinental Railroads Never Would Have Been Built Without Government	p. 202
Lie #42: The Robber Barons Were Only Assuaging Their Guilt with Their Philanthropy	p. 207
Lie #43: The Income Tax Was Created to Make the Rich Pay Their Fair Share, and Tax Cuts Only Benefit Upper-Income Americans	p. 211
Lie #44: Business Failures and Tax Cuts Combined to Cause the Great Depression	p. 215
Lie #45: LBJ's Great Society Had a Positive Impact on the Poor	p. 221
Lie #46: The Decline of American Autos and Steel Was Caused by Insufficient Government Support for the Industries	p. 227
Lie #47: The Reagan Tax Cuts Caused Massive Deficits and the National Debt	p. 233
Final Lie: History Textbooks Used in Schools Are Unbiased and Not Politically Correct	p. 239
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 289
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Larry Schweikart is the coauthor of A Patriot-'s History of the United States and the author of America-'s Victories. A professor of history at the University of Dayton, he has written more than twenty other books on national defense, business, and financial history.

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