Schweikart on Roosevelt and Pearl HarborJanuary 8, 2009 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Calling 'a liberal lie" the assertion that FDR allowed US forces to be attacked at Pearl Harbor is the exact opposite of the truth. FDR is a hero to liberals because of, among other things, social security, which conservatives hate. The canard that FDR betrayed our troops is a conservative canard.
Those familiar with Schweikart's other work will not be surprised that he is inaccurate. Here are a few factual errors from America's Victories: The Battle of Kasserine Pass, in 1943, was not an American victory, despite the book's assertion. This battle was a stunning defeat for inexperienced and badly led US troops.
The book asserts that the 82nd ABN Division fought the Germans at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. In fact, it was the 101st.
Schweikart is also gullible, a serious fault in a historian. To take only one example of gullibility: S accepts Westmoreland's estimates of enemy casualties in the siege of Khe San. Only an exceedingly naive historian would credit any general's claims of enemy losses, since these are typically exaggerated, as any historian worth his salt knows. In the case of Westmoreland, enemy casualty estimates were driven by the usual military egoism and also by his attempt to sell an unpopular war to the people back home. Westmoreland even imagined himself to be a viable presidential candidate! America's Victories
Clear thinkingJanuary 3, 2009 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Professor Schweikart has presented a worthwhile book in an effort to set the record straight. This work is something every student of history should read. It has been said that we learn nothing from history but this is true only to the extent history is ignored. Even if a person disagrees with Schweikart's work, a reader will come away knowing that not everything is as clear as some may assume. He clears away a lot of the fog which has so often given a fuzzy picture of what truly has happened. Going all the way back to George Washington, Schweikart has pinpointed important times in American history and shown how we've gotten the wrong picture.
Highly recommended.
If Schweikart had presented the case, O.J. would have been convicted the first time.December 21, 2008 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Larry Schweikart is rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors. A story teller at heart, Schweikart methodically presents the overwhelming and convincing evidence that dismantles one liberal myth after another. Meanwhile, his writing is not only informative, it's entertaining and, at times, laugh-out-loud funny.
Schweikart bulldozes through popularized myths and dismantles them before your eyes in a way that makes you wonder why anyone ever believed them in the first place. Each is punctuated with featured erroneous statements by "respected" historians from popular history texts. Of course, for an historian to be featured in one of Schweikarts books is like a nursing home being "featured" on 60 Minutes.
From the original religious intent of the Founding Fathers to the motivation of Lincoln's Emancipation, from the impact FDR's New Deal to McCarthy's discovery of communist spies, from the atrocity of the Great Society to the duplicity of Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda, 48 Lies lays waste to the fiction that has infiltrated our education system and lives.
So devastating is Schweikart's 48 Lies that the New Left's only defense will be to hope you ignore it. Don't.
If Larry Schweikart had presented the case, O.J. would have been convicted the first time. There will be a place for Schweikart in a Wolf Administration.
UPDATE: A reponse to those on this board and elsewhere who stubbornly cling to the canard that Gorbechev, not Reagan, ended the Cold War: Fine, if it makes you feel better. And Sonny Liston ended the fight with Muhammad Ali ... by shrewdly lying unconscious on the canvas.
There is hope - The truth is getting outDecember 20, 2008 1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my granddaughter. She was reading it during reading time in her classroom. Her eighth grade teacher noticed the title and asked if he could take a look. He started reading and couldn't put it down, she wondered if he was going to give it back. Finally he smiled as he handed back the book and commented very good. Perhaps this teacher is the exception but my granddaughters story certainly made my day.
not all you read is trueDecember 19, 2008 2 out of 9 found this review helpful
regarding Nixon and troop levels - sure, it's true that Nixon EVENTUALLY reduced troop levels, but not before increasing them. And, not before escalating the war in other ways, such as increased bombing and secretly invading Cambodia. See troop levels here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/U.S._Troop_levels_in_Vietnam_War
Also increased, initially, were the number of U.S. casualties:
