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| Lie #1: The First Presidents Intended for the United States to Be Isolationist | |
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| Lie #2: The Mexican and Spanish-American Wars Were Imperialist Efforts Drummed Up by "Corporate Interests" | |
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| Lie #3: FDR Knew in Advance About the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | |
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| Lie #4: Harry Truman Ordered the Atomic Bombing of Japan to Intimidate the Soviets with "Atomic Diplomacy" | |
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| Lie #5: John F. Kennedy Was Killed by LBJ and a Secret Team to Prevent Him from Getting Us Out of Vietnam | |
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| Lie #6: Richard Nixon Expanded the Vietnam War | |
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| Lie #7: The "Peace Movement" Activists Were Not Dupes of the KGB | |
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| Lie #8: Ronald Reagan Knew "Star Wars" Wouldn't Work but Wanted to Provoke a War with the USSR | |
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| Lie #9: Mikhail Gorbachev, Not Ronald Reagan, Was Responsible for Ending the Cold War | |
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| Lie #10: September 11 Was Not the Work of Terrorists: It Was a Government Conspiracy | |
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| Lie #11: No Terrorists or Weapons of Mass Destruction Were Hiding in Iraq | |
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| Lie #12: The Founders Envisioned a "Wall of Separation" Between Church and State, Keeping Religious Influence Out of Government | |
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| Lie #13: Thomas Jefferson Favored "Small Government" and Was a Pacifist | |
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| Lie #14: Women Had No Rights in Early America | |
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| Lie #15: Restrictions on the Right to Vote Kept Voter Participation Low | |
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| Lie #16: Prohibition Was Unpopular from the Beginning and Failed in All Its Objectives | |
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| Lie #17: Sacco and Vanzetti Were Innocent and Wrongly Executed | |
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| Lie #18: Senator Joseph McCarthy Concocted the "Red Scare," and There Was Nothing to Fear from Communist Subversives | |
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| Lie #19: The Rosenbergs Were Not Spies and Were Wrongfully Executed | |
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| Lie #20: Lee Harvey Oswald Shot JFK Because He Was a Deranged Marine, Not Because He Was a Communist | |
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| Lie #21: Columbus Was Responsible for Killing Millions of Indians | |
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| Lie #22: The Early Colonies Were Intolerant and Racist | |
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| Lie #23: Early America Was Home to Few Guns or Gun Owners | |
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| Lie #24: Abraham Lincoln Only Freed the Slaves to Beef Up His Troop Strength | |
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| Lie #25: The Scopes Trial Proved That Darwin Was Correct and Christians Were Backward | |
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| Lie #26: The 1950s Were Dull and Boring and Created a Generation of Conformists in the Workplace and Home | |
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| Lie #27: Richard Nixon Sent Burglars into the Watergate Office Complex | |
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| Lie #28: Neither Ronald Reagan's Election nor the "Contract with America" Proved the Triumph of Conservative Ideas | |
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| Lie #29: Bill Clinton Was Impeached over Sex | |
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| Lie #30: George W. Bush Was Selected, Not Elected, in 2000, and Votes Were Stolen on His Behalf | |
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| Lie #31: Muslim Terrorists Are Poor and Uneducated and Hate Us Because We Support Israel | |
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| Lie #32: The News Media Is Objective, Fair, and Balanced - and Always Has Been | |
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| Lie #33: Native Americans Were Great Environmentalists, While White Settlers Destroyed the Buffalo | |
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| Lie #34: The First Thanksgiving Took Place Because the Indians Saved the Puritans from Their Own Ineptitude | |
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| Lie #35: The "Robber Barons" Pillaged the Land and Destroyed the Environment | |
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| Lie #36: Federal Regulators Have Protected the Public's Health by Identifying Harmful Products | |
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| Lie #37: Global Warming Is a Fact, and It's a Man-made, American-Driven Problem | |
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| Lie #38: The Constitution Was the Creation of "Elites" Protecting Their Financial Interests | |
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| Lie #39: Northern Capitalist Greed - Not Slavery - Drove the Civil War | |
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| Lie #40: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act Protected the "Little Guy" and Reined in "Big Business"Abuses | |
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| Lie #41: The Transcontinental Railroads Never Would Have Been Built Without Government | |
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| Lie #42: The Robber Barons Were Only Assuaging Their Guilt with Their Philanthropy | |
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| Lie #43: The Income Tax Was Created to Make the Rich Pay Their Fair Share, and Tax Cuts Only Benefit Upper-Income Americans | |
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| Lie #44: Business Failures and Tax Cuts Combined to Cause the Great Depression | |
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| Lie #45: LBJ's Great Society Had a Positive Impact on the Poor | |
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| Lie #46: The Decline of American Autos and Steel Was Caused by Insufficient Government Support for the Industries | |
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| Lie #47: The Reagan Tax Cuts Caused Massive Deficits and the National Debt | |
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| Final Lie: History Textbooks Used in Schools Are Unbiased and Not Politically Correct | |
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