American History Revised

De: Seymour Morris Jr.

Narrado por: Grover Gardner

This spirited reexamination of American history delves into our past to expose hundreds of startling facts that never made it into the textbooks, and highlights how little-known people and events played surprisingly influential roles in the great American story.

We tend to think of history as settled, set in stone, but American History Revised reveals a past that is filled with ironies, surprises, and misconceptions. Living abroad for 12 years gave author Seymour Morris Jr. the opportunity to view his country as an outsider and compelled him to examine American history from a fresh perspective. As Morris colorfully illustrates through the 200 historical vignettes that make up this book, much of our nation's past is quite different - and far more remarkable - than we thought.

We discover the following:

• In the 1950s Ford was approached by two Japanese companies begging for a joint venture. Ford declined their offers, calling them makers of "tin cars". The two companies were Toyota and Nissan.
• Eleanor Roosevelt and most women's groups opposed the Equal Rights Amendment forbidding gender discrimination.
• The two generals who ended the Civil War weren't Grant and Lee.
• The #1 best-selling American book of all time was written in one day.
• The Dutch made a bad investment buying Manhattan for $24.
• Two young girls aimed someday to become First Lady - and succeeded.
• Three times, a private financier saved the United States from bankruptcy.

Organized into 10 thematic chapters, American History Revised plumbs American history's numerous inconsistencies, twists, and turns to make it come alive again.

©2018 Seymour Morris, Jr. (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Good Book

Interesting takes. Insightful. Morris moves the camera a tad on some of our most cherished American photographs to provide a real 3D look at some of what's gone on around here. I liked it.

Neutral and loving it

How refreshing to read, listen to a book that has such a neat take on American history. I am going use a number of these vignettes in my teaching of high school history.

History & How it connects the facts....

Great read, Grover Gardner is top of his game here!!!! if you find the actual events around historical moments you will love this book!!!

Don't know how much this can be trusted.

I love American history and books that ask us to look at history differently. Many of the stories and snippets in this book were intriguing. HOWEVER, there are quite a few outright inaccuracies. So many that I don't know if I can trust any of what the author has written. And when I say "inaccuracies" I am not talking political slant or opinion. He gets facts wrong. The one that sticks out in my memory most is when he gets the year Hurricane Katrina hit wrong. But there were others too, and it just left me doubting the whole book.