[DOWNLOAD] "Victors' History: Neocons have Airbrushed the Old Right out of Our Past (Ideas)" by The American Conservative ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Victors' History: Neocons have Airbrushed the Old Right out of Our Past (Ideas)
- Author : The American Conservative
- Release Date : January 23, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
Description
SOMEONE OUGHT TO write a book called Down the Memory Hole. It would discuss the multifarious beliefs that American conservatives held until the second half of the 20th century but subsequently gave up without fuss or embarrassment. Conservative leaders have not only abandoned their forebears' understanding of such events as the Civil War, World War I, and the civil rights movement, they have imposed on their followers exactly opposite views. A case in point is the revisionist historiography of Larry Schweikart, coauthor--with Michael Allen--of A Patriot's History of the United States. Schweikart, a regular on Fox News, takes to task "leftist" historians who disparage America's past or glorify the expansion of public administration. In the latter respect, he offers a useful antidote to the mainstream liberal history of my youth, particularly to exaggerated claims about FDR pulling us out of the Depression. Schweikart also tells the truth about such productive, non-activist presidents as Calvin Coolidge and Dwight Eisenhower, who have long been treated by left-leaning court historians as inferior to the leaders who built the welfare-warfare state. Schweikart notes the integrity of Grover Cleveland--one of our most morally upstanding but largely ignored chief executives--and dares bring up the discomfiting fact that most of those in the State Department whom Joe McCarthy deemed to be security risks were exactly that.