ISBN History as Mystery

Essays on how history’s victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work.
'Michael Parenti, always provocative and eloquent, gives us a lively as well as valuable critique of orthodoxy posing as ‘history.’'—Howard Zinn
'Solid if surely controversial stuff.'—Kirkus
Table of Contents
Prologue: Against the MainstreamHistory as MiseducationMainstream OrthodoxyThe Hunt for Real HistoryTextbooks: America the BeautifulFor Business, Against LaborThe School as a ToolPriests and Pagans, Saints and SlavesTriumph of the One True FaithSilencing the PagansAccepting the Powers that BeAffluent BelieversSaints For SlaveryBishops and Barbarians, Jezebels and JewsThe Myth of the Devout PeasantThe Curse of EveThe Burning of BooksPreparing the HolocaustHistory in the FakingSuppression at the Point of OriginCold War in the ArchivesClassified History, USAListening to the Muted MassesIn Ranke's FootstepsHis Majesty's ServantAn Aristocratic Profession'Purging the RedsPublishing and Privishing'Marketing the Right StuffThe Strange Death of President ZacharyTaylor, a Study in the Manufacture ofMainstream HistoryExamining the ExaminationConfrontation with the SlavocracyA lethal Dose of Cherries and Milk?Honorable Men and Official HistoryAgainst PsychopoliticsDepoliticizing the PoliticalDubious Clinical DataLenin as OedipusThe Compulsive HooverThe Political HooverWhen the Political Becomes PersonalAfterword