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001 2007001347
003 DLC
005 20080726092611.0
008 070117s2007 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007001347
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050 00 $aE179$b.W828 2007
082 00 $a973$222
100 1 $aWoods, Thomas E.
245 10 $a33 questions about American history you're not supposed to ask /$cThomas E. Woods, Jr.
246 3 $aThirty-three questions about American history you're not supposed to ask
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCrown Forum,$cc2007.
300 $aix, 306 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aDid the founding fathers support immigration? -- Did Martin Luther King , Jr. oppose affirmative action? -- Were the American Indians really environmentalists? -- Were states' rights just code words for slavery and oppression? -- What was "the biggest unknown scandal of the Clinton years"? -- Was the "wild West" really so wild? -- How antiwar have American liberals really been over the years? -- Did the Iroquois indians influence the United States Constitution? -- Did desegregation of schools significantly narrow the Black-White educational achievement gap? -- Was the Civil War all about slavery, or was something else at stake as well? -- Can the President, on his own authority, send troops anywhere in the world he wants? -- Is it true that during World War II "Americans never had it so good"? -- How does social security really work? -- Was George Washington Carver really one of America's greatest scientific geniuses? -- Was the U.S. Constitution meant to be a "living, breathing" document that changes with the times? -- Did the pilgrims flourish in America thanks to Indian Agricultural wisdom? -- Who is most responsible for the "imperial presidency"? -- Is discrimination to blame for racial differences in income and job placement? -- Where did Thomas Jefferson's radical states' rights ideas come from? -- What really happened in the Whiskey Rebellion, and why will neither your textbook nor George Washington tell you? -- What made American wages rise? (hint: it wasn't unions or the government) -- Did capitalism cause the Great Depression? -- Did Herbert Hoover sit back and do nothing during the Great Depression? -- Did Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal lift the United States out of the Depression? -- Does the Constitution's commerce clause really grant the federal government the power to regulate all gainful activity? -- Can the federal governmen do whatever it thinks will provide for the "general welfare" of Americans? -- Does the Constitution really contain an "elastic clause"? -- Did the founding fathers believe juries could refuse to enforce unjust laws? -- Is the U.S. government too stingy with foreign aid (or not stingy enough)? -- Did labor unions make Americans more free? -- Should Americans care about historians' rankings of the presidents? -- Who was S.B. Fuller? -- Did Bill Clinton really stop a genocide in Kosovo?
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$vMiscellanea.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$xErrors, inventions, etc.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007001347.html