This has got me thinking: What are the major American history texts on the right? Is it just folk tales and old high school textbooks? https://twitter.com/Atrios/status/1135187281214607360 …
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I tried reading Johnson a couple of years back and I imagine I did about as well as most people.
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I actually think conservatives are much better than liberals at cultivating a canon. Leftists are better at it, too, though not as good as conservatives. Conservative intellectuals push Kirk, Buckley, Chamber, Rand, etc. on young people.
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I suspect Ayn Rand features strongly.
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As an example of what's out there: here's a book that claims Thomas Jefferson fathered no slave children, was pro racial equality, didn't want to secularize public life and was a pious Christian: https://www.amazon.com/Jefferson-Lies-Exposing-Always-Believed/dp/1595554599 …
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I was about to point to the pseudo-historian Mr Barton, who is a widely quoted source in many Christian home-schooling courses. He's very popular with some on the religious right, and books like this are a good example of why.
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Paul Johnson's A History of the American People is still a good antidote for A People's History of the United States for young people. His book on Intellectuals is lame and I haven't read Modern Times.
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Jacques Barzun, Eugene Genovese, and Gertrude Himmelfarb, come to mind as well, everyone in that class being either ancient or deceased.
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