History as Mystery

Name: History as Mystery
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ISBN: 9780872863576

ISBN-10: 0872863573

ISBN-13: 9780872863576

Edition: 1999

Authors: Michael Parenti

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In a lively challenge to mainstream historical myths, Michael Parenti shows how history is the winner's story, and historians prisoners of their own professional and class environment.

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Michael Parenti(Ph.D., Yale University) is an internationally known, award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural subjects. Among his recent books are God and His Demons(2010), Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader(2007), The Culture Struggle(2006), The Assassination of Julius Caesar(2003), and Democracy for the Few, 9th edition(2010).

Prologue: Against the Mainstream
History as Miseducation	p. 1
Mainstream Orthodoxy	p. 1
The Hunt for Real History	p. 6
Textbooks: America the Beautiful	p. 11
For Business, Against Labor	p. 17
The School as a Tool	p. 22
Priests and Pagans, Saints and Slaves	p. 35
Triumph of the One True Faith	p. 35
Silencing the Pagans	p. 45
Accepting the Powers that Be	p. 47
Affluent Believers	p. 54
Saints for Slavery	p. 62
Bishops and Barbarians, Jezebels and Jews	p. 77
The Myth of the Devout Peasant	p. 77
The Curse of Eve	p. 83
The Burning of Books	p. 95
Preparing the Holocaust	p. 103
History in the Faking	p. 129
Suppression at the Point of Origin	p. 129
Cold War in the Archives	p. 137
Classified History, USA	p. 142
Listening to the Muted Masses	p. 154
In Ranke's Footsteps	p. 165
His Majesty's Servant	p. 166
An "Aristocratic Profession"	p. 171
Purging the Reds	p. 176
Publishing and "Privishing"	p. 183
Marketing the Right Stuff	p. 190
The Strange Death of President Zachary Taylor, a Study in the Manufacture of Mainstream History	p. 209
Examining the Examination	p. 212
Confrontation with the Slavocracy	p. 220
A Lethal Dose of Cherries and Milk?	p. 224
Honorable Men and Official History	p. 229
Against Psychopolitics	p. 241
Depoliticizing the Political	p. 241
Dubious Clinical Data	p. 248
Lenin as Oedipus	p. 252
The Compulsive Hoover	p. 255
The Political Hoover	p. 257
When the Political Becomes Personal	p. 262
Afterword	p. 266
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