Why American History Is Not What They Say

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Objectivity in History......Page 11
The Historical Fiction of John Dos Passos......Page 33
The Historical Fiction of Kenneth Roberts......Page 28
History and Fiction......Page 17
Burr and Lincoln......Page 41
Hollywood and The Golden Age......Page 57
1876, Empire, and Hollywood......Page 51
The Birth of American Revisionism and the Rise of Harry Elmer Barnes......Page 63
The Libertarian Historians and Their Colleagues on the New Left......Page 88
James J. Martin: Historian and Pampheteer......Page 85
Harry Elmer Barnes and James J. Martin......Page 77
Charles A. Beard and Wiliam Appleman Williams......Page 70
The U.S. Civil War - The Revisionist View......Page 92
A Revisionist Look at America in the Cold War......Page 102
America in the World Wars......Page 96
Left and Right, Conservative and Liberal......Page 106
The Reagan Fraud, and After......Page 157
The Goldwater Anomaly......Page 151
The Myth of the Old Right......Page 143
Herbert Hoover\'s New Deal......Page 137
Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and the Triumph of Conservatism......Page 130
Conservative Republicans and Liberal Democrats......Page 121
The Decline of American Liberalism......Page 115
VI The New American History Wars......Page 166
The Breakdown of the Consensus: The Case of Howard Zinn......Page 176
History, Fiction, and Objectivity......Page 195
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. vs. Larry Schweikeart and Michael Allen......Page 188
American History According to Eric Foner......Page 184
Index......Page 199