0-87286-357-3
(paper)
0-87286-364-6 (cloth)
City Lights Books, 1999 |
In
a compelling challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does
battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows
how history's
victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate
their power and privilege. And he demonstrates how historians are
influenced
by the professional and class environment in which they work. Pursuing
themes ranging from antiquity to modern times, from the Inquisition
and Joan of Arc to the anti-labor bias of present-day history textbooks,
History As Mystery demonstrates in fascinating detail how past
and present can inform each other and how history can be a truly exciting
and engaging subject.
What they are saying
about History As Mystery:
“Those who keep secret the past, and lie about it,
condemn us to repeat it.
Michael Parenti unveils the history of falsified history, from the early
Christian church to the present; a fascinating darkly revelatory tale.”
— Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Pentagon Papers
“Deserves
to be an instant classic.”
— Bertell Ollman, author of Dialectical
Investigations
“With History As Mystery, Michael Parenti, always provocative
and eloquent, gives us a lively as well as valuable critique of orthodoxy
posing as ‘history’”
— Howard Zinn, author of A People's
History of the United States
Contents
- History
As Miseducation
Mainstream Orthodoxy
The Hunt for Real History
Textbooks: America the Beautiful
For Business, Against Labor
The School as Tool
Priests
and Pagans, Saints and Slaves
Triumph of the One True Faith
Silencing the Pagans
Accepting the Powers that Be
Affluent Believers
Saints for Slavery
Bishops
and Barbarians, Jezebels and Jews
The
Myth of the Devout Peasant
The Curse of Eve
The Burning of Books
Preparing the Holocaust
History
in the Faking
Suppression
at the Point of Origin
Cold War in the Archives
Classified History, USA
Listening to the Muted Masses
In
Ranke’s Footsteps
His
Majesty’s Servant
An “Aristocratic Profession”
Purging the Reds
Publishing and “Privishing”
Marketing the Right Stuff
The
Strange Death of President Zachary Taylor,
A Study in the Manufacture
of Mainstream History
Examining the Examination
Confrontation with the Slavocracy
A Lethal Dose of Cherries and Milk?
Honorable Men and Official History
- Against
Psychopolitics
Depoliticizing the Political
Dubious Clinical Data
Lenin as Oedipus
The Compulsive Hoover
The Political Hoover
When the Political Becomes Personal
|
