Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential reading amid today’s heated debates about our nation’s past. Based on a firm foundation of historical scholarship, their findings revitalize our understanding of American history. Kevin Michael Kruse Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past Hardcover Januby Kevin M. The contributors debunk narratives that portray the New Deal and Great Society as failures, immigrants as hostile invaders, and feminists as anti-family warriors-among numerous other partisan lies. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperiling our democracy. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis that explains what we get.

The contributors debunk narratives that portray the New Deal and Great Society as failures, immigrants as hostile invaders, and feminists as anti-family warriors-among numerous other partisan lies. Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Kruse and Julian E.Zelizerhave assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation. Zelizer (eds.), Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our PastĪmerica’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past Finally, they address their own specific chapters (Kruse on “The Southern Strategy” and Zelizer on “The Reagan Revolution”) in this edited collection. They talk about the genesis of the book and its purpose, and the problems historians now face in a time of frenetic social media. Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer introduce “Myth America,” one of the most consequential books to address myths and misunderstandings of American history.

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