And the Worst Book of History Is …
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at verizon.net
Thu Jul 19 09:26:13 CDT 2012
On 7/19/2012 9:34 AM, David Morris wrote:
> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/and-the-worst-book-of-history-is/
>
> The political direction of the country may be up for grabs until
> November, but the right has scored an interim victory — if that’s the
> word — in a weeklong contest to determine “the least credible history
> book in print” just concluded by the History News Network.
>
> After a week of voting by readers, David Barton’s “The Jefferson Lies”
> won with some 650 votes, narrowly edging the left-wing historian
> Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States,” which received
> 641 votes.
Left wing bullshit is less noxious than right wing bullshit.
P
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