The American Experiment: What Your History Teacher Didn't Tell You

by Sal Mayweather, Brion McClanahan (Foreword)

America has been regarded as a grand experiment in self-government. While the Greeks and Romans had failed to achieve this in their day, both societies nevertheless rose above their contemporaries and soared to new heights. So, when it came time for the American founders to try their hand at statecraft, they naturally opted to fuse elements of Greek democracy and Roman republicanism together to forge a new and lasting, American, democratic-republic.

It was long before this experiment was put to the test, when in 1861, a great “civil war” broke out. We’ve been taught to believe that the experiment survived the war - not only did the government graciously preserve liberty, but they’ve been spreading it abroad ever since.

What if this isn’t true? What if liberty and self-government didn’t survive the war? What if all the foreign military aggression ever since has really been an excuse for the victors - an elite cabal of financial interests - to retain and tighten their grip on power?

In this book you’ll find a narrative of American history you’ve likely never heard the Truth.

Genres: History

179 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 13, 2022

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worth a read if you want to learn about some of the history we aren’t taught, which led to the destruction of the three branches of government restraining each other.

Some of the history I’ve come across in other books. Some is new to me. A nice comprehensive collection.

[onyedi]

Eski Yunan demokrasisi ve Roma cumhuriyetinin çöküş hikayelerinin kısa tahlilinden yola çıkarak Birleşik Devletler’in kuruluşunda var olduğuna inanılan / anayasada bulunan “olabilecek en az seviyede hükümet etme” idealinin neden kat’i surette akim kaldığını anlatıyor. Amerika’nın kuruluşunda var olan teşri, icra ve muhakeme müesseselerinin yanına, hatta hepsinin üstüne gelip konan idari müesseselerin nasıl ortaya çıktığının ve her geçen gün ferdi hürriyeti daha da çok nasıl kısıtladıklarının kısa bir anlatımı aynı zamanda. Her anarşist gibi yaptığı tespitler büyük ölçüde doğru ama hükümetsizliğin tespit ettiği problemleri çözeceği inancının hiçbir mesnedi yok. Yine de, Thoreau abimizin dediği gibi, “Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.”

[Andrew Arlidge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Edifying

A great book that gives another side to the narrative we are force fed by the cabal. This was especially interesting for me as a non-American.
Four stars because I thought it could have included more information about about other actors in this nightmare, but I guess that's another, and much longer story.
I didn't realise I was an anarchist until 3 years ago, so many thanks to Sal for being one of my mentors on this journey of informing myself.