I Stand Corrected
by Joe Pulcinella
Forget everything I said is this post: https://libertyguys.org/articles/detail.asp?ArtID=127. The book stinks and Loewen is showing his true sociologist stripes in his book. I was under the impression this books would dispell many, many myths in American history but it does not. About 3/5 of the books deals with racism - especially in regards to the Civil War. He takes care the take any notion of economic reality out of play so it won't get in the way of his faulty theories. I struggled through the slavery/racism issue only to get to the part where he makes attempts to show that because people in America are all of varying economic strata, something is wrong. He loves Lincoln and hates capitalism.
I had to stop listening in the middle of disc #8 (of 12). I couldn't take it anymore. I guess my biggest mistake was looking to a sociologist for a history lesson. Maybe I'll tune back in at some point to see what his solutions are to these problems but until then, I'm not recommending this book to anyone other than Michael Moore.
