History as mystery /
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| Author / Creator: | Parenti, Michael, 1933- |
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| Imprint: | San Francisco : City Lights Books, c1999. |
| Description: | xxi, 273 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4028190 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. History as Miseducation. Mainstream Orthodoxy. The Hunt for Real History. Textbooks: America the Beautiful. For Business, Against Labor. The School as a Tool
- 2. Priests and Pagans, Saints and Slaves. Triumph of the One True Faith. Silencing the Pagans. Accepting the Powers that Be. Affluent Believers. Saints for Slavery
- 3. Bishops and Barbarians, Jezebels and Jews. The Myth of the Devout Peasant. The Curse of Eve. The Burning of Books. Preparing the Holocaust
- 4. History in the Faking. Suppression at the Point of Origin. Cold War in the Archives. Classified History, USA. Listening to the Muted Masses
- 5. In Ranke's Footsteps. His Majesty's Servant. An "Aristocratic Profession" Purging the Reds. Publishing and "Privishing" Marketing the Right Stuff
- 6. The Strange Death of President Zachary Taylor, a Study in the Manufacture of Mainstream History. Examining the Examination. Confrontation with the Slavocracy. A Lethal Dose of Cherries and Milk? Honorable Men and Official History
- 7. Against Psychopolitics. Depoliticizing the Political. Dubious Clinical Data. Lenin as Oedipus. The Compulsive Hoover. The Political Hoover. When the Political Becomes Personal.