Incorrect History?

Incorrect History

I haven’t read the book in question, but there are murmurs on the right that the Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas Woods might be, uh, I guess you could say a cheap shot that isn’t really going to help anything, as the saying goes.

Max Boot, writing in the Weekly Standard (more specifically, the Daily Standard at weeklystandard.com), does more than murmur. I think it fair to say that he’s upset. The Weekly Standard, if you don’t know, generally supports conservative authors and causes, so this yelp of outrage would be more a reflection of a sense of betrayal than anything else. I would like to hope that Mr. Boot is wrong, but I’m beginning to wonder if this book might be a case of ‘with friends like this, who needs enemies?’ as far as conservatives are concerned.

The link takes you to the Max Boot article. He suggests Paul Johnson's A History of the American People or Walter McDougall's A New American History instead.