Critics warn popular U.S. public school history book full of left-wing bias, propaganda | News | LifeSite
onald Reagan was no intellectual, the book tells students, Herbert Hoover was standoffish, and Dwight Eisenhower exemplified the bland leading the bland. Donald Trump, meanwhile, bullied, belittled, and bamboozled 16 rivals to snag some said hi-jack the Republican nomination, while his legions of critics, including many Republican grandees, considered the brash billionaire a swaggering colossus of ignorance, vanity, and vulgarity.
Franklin D. Roosevelt garners a staggering 299 mentions in the book, Oliver notes. Nixon, who is the lucky subject of the most detailed section on a Republican, counts 135 mentions, but most of that coverage is about Watergate.
In an extensive review of Pageant s 12th edition, Hillsdale College historian Burt Folsom argues that the book is full of distortions, contradictions, and defective historical methods feeding a false conclusion that the United States is fundamentally corrupt, and that the world is often worse off because America exists and has so much global influence.
This is the problem with government schools. Among others.