Taking a right-leaning political view, this history book reviews seminal events in American history and reveals how we may not have been learning our history correctly. Starting with the Revolutionary War, the author examines several historical myths and unravels what really happened from the beliefs that sprung alongside each of them.
Drawing from books and from scholarly research, the author reveals that in his opinion students and the general public have been misinformed about several key events in the history of the United States. The Revolutionary War was not revolutionary at all, but rather a conservative exercise in maintaining the rights and privileges of the landowners and prosperous colonists against English interference. Unlike the French Revolution, or other bloody coups in world history, the American Revolution sought to protect what already existed in the face of dramatic changes. In the First World War, the United States professed to be neutral, but its transfer of munitions and its attacks on German submarines prior to the Congress' declaration of war made it a belligerent in everything but name. Speaking of Congress, the President has usurped the Congress' power to declare war, and now routinely commits American military actions without approval from the proper constitutional authority.
Fans of history will appreciate this perspective on several key moments in American history and will enjoy comparing what they learned in school to the views portrayed in this book.
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