Kevin M. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton University and the editor or author of five books, including White Flight and One Nation Under God. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Burning Down the House and Abraham Joshua Heschel. He lives in New York City.
"This important compilation deserves wide readership."
--CHOICE Connect
"Julian Zelizer and Kevin Kruse marshal a fine array of historians
for a bestselling assault on rightwing nonsense."--Guardian
"Myth America's contributors take direct aim at the lies that are
the lifeblood of the myths that grip American culture and politics
today. This book is a collective work of courage in a time when
'truth' and 'fact' have never been so widely abused; if we believe
in our craft as public historians and journalists, Kevin Kruse and
Julian Zelizer show us the way."
--David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick
Douglass
"[Myth America] brings together outstanding historians who draw on
rich, often surprising recent research by themselves and others to
present a much more complicated and less congratulatory picture of
many of the most contentious issues in the nation's history.
Moreover, these essays treat readers to wonderfully accessible,
jargon-free historical writing."--Lizabeth Cohen, Washington
Post
"An authoritative and fitting contribution to the myth-busting
genre."
--Carlos Lozada, New York Times
"An extraordinary essay collection by an extraordinary group of
historians--each determined to make our national history usable in
all the best ways. The truth does exist, and they tell it well.
Together, they make an indispensable intervention for our troubled
times."--Beverly Gage, author of G-Man
"If you want to cling to your most cherished myths about history,
this is a dangerous book. But at a time when both truth and history
are under siege, Myth America has given us a blunt fact-check of
many of the fictions that have come to dominate our political and
cultural debates. An immensely important contribution and
indispensable reference tool for confronting both the wish-casting
and the disinformation about our past."--Charlie Sykes, editor in
chief, The Bulwark
"Illuminating and sharply written...Distinguished by its impressive
roster of contributors and lucid arguments, this ought to be
required reading."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Punching through the information overload with clear-eyed
analysis, research rigor, and stylistic verve, this collection
reveals the real history behind today's headlines and upends
long-enduring myths. Powerful, timely, and essential."--Margaret
O'Mara, author of The Code
"The book's essays...are exemplary models of political and cultural
history."--Slate
"The book's incisive essays poke holes in everything from American
exceptionalism and white backlash to Confederate monuments and
America First, taking us on a sobering tour through some of the
nation's deepest and darkest chapters."--Vanity Fair
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