I feel this is a book that casual readers may be attracted to (although, any conservative Trump supporters will be turned off immediately by the introduction, but in all fairness, the America First chapter was the one I think I learned the most through). Kruse and Zelizer found the best people for the topics that are in this book, and expertise, along with clarity is what this book offers the best. The risk in these works is that it is usually unbalanced, with some very strong and then some very weak entries. They all stand equally to me, although there are some historians that I was looking forward to reading over others. This is a great edition for someone wanting to cut through a lot of the research to understand key ideas in American historiography. Really like the concept of this collected set of essays on everything from American Exceptionalism to police violence. I am familiar with both Kruse and Zelizer and their work on post 1973 history. Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential reading amid today’s heated debates about our nation’s past. Based on a firm foundation of historical scholarship, their findings revitalize our understanding of American history.

The contributors debunk narratives that portray the New Deal and Great Society as failures, immigrants as hostile invaders, and feminists as anti-family warriors-among numerous other partisan lies. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperiling our democracy.

The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history.

In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past.

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