The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History

By: Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

Everything, well, almost everything, you know about American history is wrong because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academic historians who treat their biases as fact. But fear not; Professor Thomas Woods refutes the popular myths in The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

Professor Woods's audiobook reveals facts that you won't be, or never were, taught in school. It tells you about the "Books You're Not Supposed to Read" and takes you on a fast paced, politically incorrect tour of American history that will give you all the information you need to battle and confound left-wing professors, neighbors, and friends.

©2004 Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks

very informative

Great information that every American should know! Very informative without regard to a particular party.

cool reading list

regretfully, the only book mentioned in this book that in not supposed to have read that i have read is 'losing ground'. i was working as i listened to this so i didnt have the free hands to write down all the forbidden books mentioned. think i'll tweet at tom and see if he can send me a link to a reading list of the cited sources on his website. he prob does, he has a page for everything on his website.

Concerned with Audibles categorization.

I am concerned labeled book's labeled fiction. If Source material is deemed worthy it should be reclassified and should the miscatagorization should concern audience. If different interpretations of factual material are deemed a tall tale we are all in trouble.

Who knew?

This is one of those rare books where, upon completion, you want to send copies to your friends on both the Right and the Left. Otherwise, you'll be spending your time slapping them upside the head as they continue to unwittingly spout the traditional fables of American history. While I consider myself fairly well read, this book is filled with information of which I was blissfully unaware--including those that occurred in my own lifetime.

My only real complaint is that the book, at least in the audio version, jumps right into colonial period without an introduction to explain how this book will be different from any history book you've ever read. A little bit of context would have been helpful.

The narration is fine but I personally could have done without the attempt to deliver the quotations in the accent of the original speakers. It falls somewhere between amusing and affected.

Overall, this is an excellent book and essential reading for anyone who wants to get the full story and not just the version that academia wants you to believe.

history as i wish it had been taught to me

tom woods fan disclaimer. found Tom's "questions you arent supposed to ask" through discovery of Ron Paul. it was an easy progression through mises.org and Llew Rockwell. this book is no different. great content. as a product of govmt -written textbooks, for me, its great to hear history from another perspective.

Conservative focus

I was hoping for a less partisan read. I am most definitely on the right side of the aisle, but this was way too one sided.

I’ll-intended

An I’ll-intended, non-factual pathetic book exploiting the ignorant American right at the expense of the ignorant American eft

Must read

If you are interested in learning what you didn't learn, rather than wanting to read something that simply fits with your belief of history, get this book. If you're not willing to learn where your history textbooks didn't tell the whole story (or any part of the story at all), then don't listen to this book because as you can see it is very bothersome to some that don't want to have their views questioned.

Tough to get past the open bias...

interesting material and perspectives. Some armchair paychology in the book, giant leaps to conclusions and taking some valid points and boiling down highly nuanced problems to simple answers backed by some solid counterpoints, but would've appreciated setting that treated things more even handedly to lend some credibility to the cases being built.

Tom Woods Doesn’t Miss

This book is a great introduction to American history, and it shows the incrementalism and erosion of the constitution that libertarians, such as Woods, preach about. Great read.