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Well that's 30 hours I'll never get back. The author's contempt for anything that doesn't fit in their trickle down capitalist, evangelical Christian worldview is staggering. The selective forgetting of certain aspects of history is also bewildering.
The chapters on the Antebellum period, Civil War, and the Reconstruction are not terrible. Those chapters are the only reason I'm giving this 1/2 of a star.
The Columbus worship, the fragility of in trying to clap back on claims that Jefferson fathered a child with his slave, trying to justify a worldview that the founders intended for a Christian nation, the thinly veiled anger towards women's liberation or the attempts to impeach the dignity of the press or former presidents that they clearly don't like.... it's exhausting and entirely too long. Whoever edited this and kept in the authors' tirades, dubious citations, and patently false information should be ashamed of themselves.
I suppose the upside is that since I'm a woman and used my time to read this, it probably is upsetting to the authors that I, 1. can read, and 2. spent time reading instead of being barefoot and pregnant in a kitchen. Though I did listen to part of the book while cooking, but then again I made South Asian paratha, so I'm sure that the dish being outside of the "white heteronormative populist evangelical Christian" genre cancels that out...
The chapters on the Antebellum period, Civil War, and the Reconstruction are not terrible. Those chapters are the only reason I'm giving this 1/2 of a star.
The Columbus worship, the fragility of in trying to clap back on claims that Jefferson fathered a child with his slave, trying to justify a worldview that the founders intended for a Christian nation, the thinly veiled anger towards women's liberation or the attempts to impeach the dignity of the press or former presidents that they clearly don't like.... it's exhausting and entirely too long. Whoever edited this and kept in the authors' tirades, dubious citations, and patently false information should be ashamed of themselves.
I suppose the upside is that since I'm a woman and used my time to read this, it probably is upsetting to the authors that I, 1. can read, and 2. spent time reading instead of being barefoot and pregnant in a kitchen. Though I did listen to part of the book while cooking, but then again I made South Asian paratha, so I'm sure that the dish being outside of the "white heteronormative populist evangelical Christian" genre cancels that out...