The Politically Correct Guide to American History

by Edward P. Moser

The Founding Fathers were cross-dressers. Paula Bunyan was a lumberjane. To Benedict Arnold, treason was just another lifestyle choice. This is not the American past you may remember from social studies class.

In The Politically Correct Guide to American History, U.S. history is rewritten according to the core curriculum of political correctness: frivolous lawsuits, animal rights activism, racial quotas, and in-your-face feminism. This wide-ranging tour de farce is a satirical stew of such varying topical material as tabloid journalism, gun control, and Britain's royal family. Nothing in American history is safe from revision: Theodore Roosevelt founds the Rough Riders to surmount a midlife crisis, the gang of outlaws at the O.K. Corral is recast as a freedom-loving private militia, and the Louisiana Purchase almost never happens because President Thomas Jefferson faces a sexual harassment suit from Sally Hemings.

The Politically Correct Guide to American History gives a suspiciously contemporary spin to the past--as it might be taught in future classrooms!

127 pages, Paperback

First published June 3, 1996

About the author

Edward Moser, is no talking head, but a historian and long-time author. A former speechwriter for the President of the United States, and an ex-Editor of Time-Life Books, he was also a writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 14 published books, on such subjects as history, politics, humor, and technology.

His latest is Femme Fatalité: A Lizzy Thorne Spy Novel--

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

His previous work is The Old Town Horror, Murder and Theft in America's Most Historic Locale--

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

His previous book, from Lyons Press, was The Lost Capitol, The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building--

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-C...

Another book of his, from McFarland, is The White House's Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal & Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

A previous, on Presidents, politics, & history, is The Two-Term Jinx!--

(https://www.amazon.com/Two-Term-Jinx-...).

Turner Publishing Company published his work, A to Z of America--

http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-Americ..., a series of vignettes on famous events and personalities in U.S. history.

Ntm his satire Foundering Fathers--

http://www.amazon.com/Foundering-Fath...) spoofs today’s official Washington.

He also runs a popular tour of the White House and Lafayette Square areas of Washington, D.C.

https://www.meetup.com/washarea-disco...

https://www.facebook.com/LafayetteSqu....

Reviews

[Петър Стойков · Rating 3 out of 5]

Общоприетото виждане не е винаги (даже е доста рядко) същото като историческата истина, особено за важни събития в националната история. Тази книга се опитва да разгледа историята на САЩ и да разбие някои митове относно миналото й и относно основополагащи събития и личности.

Митовете че "Ф.Д.Рузвелт извел страната от Голямата депресия", че "гражданската война е била заради премахването на робството", че "Маккарти е бил параноичен и съветски шпиони в САЩ не е имало" и т.н.

Повечето (да не кажа всички) от тия неща аз ги знаех вече и като цяло аргументацията и самото им поднасяне са доста разговорни и елементарни, но за незапознат човек, особено американец най-вероятно ще са доста интересни или поне ще го накарат да потърси повече информация по въпроса.

[Nathan Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hillarious the first 20 or 30 pages. Then the jokes got a little tiring, and my enthusiasm fizzled. My favorite was the PC defintion of marriage - Domestic Incarceration.