A most imperfect union : a contrarian history of the United States / by Ilan Stavans ; illustrated by Lalo Alcaraz.
"Enough with the dead white men! Forget what you learned in school! Ever since Columbus --who was probably a converted Jew -- "discovered" the New World, the powerful and privileged have usurped American history. The true story of the United States lies not with the founding fathers or robber barons...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2014]
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MSU: In dust jacket. |
Physical Description: | xv, 269 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Foreword : plastic nation
- Introduction
- The land is ours
- The founding fathers have a baby!
- Slaves R us
- The new colossus
- The progress machine
- Beat the Soviets
- New world disorder
- Epilogue.