Review of
Blackballed by History: True Tales of
History’s Most Demonized Characters, compiled by Paul T.
Angel ISBN 9780988199750
One out of five stars
Pathetic attempts to rewrite history
As a longtime
student of history, I have read many history books, both popular and academic.
This one has to rank close to the bottom in terms of enjoyable reading and
accurate content. It was clear to me that this was such a book when I
encountered the following in the foreword: “ Establishment historians – the court
historians, as we in the authentic history movement call them – have a way of
twisting things, like your daily paper and the talking heads on TV do.” In
other words, we are right because we declare we are right, and all the other
professional students of history are wrong.
Nothing could
be further from the truth. The articles collected in this book contain the
usual nonsensical distortions, comments such as “the war of Northern aggression”
and in the article about Quantrill and his raiders: “They were no different
than the patriots of the American Revolution, and the only line of defense left
in Missouri against Socialist Marxists who were doing the bidding of Abraham
Lincoln.” Given that “Das Kapital” was first published in 1867, two years after
the war ended, it is ridiculous to claim that Abraham Lincoln was operating on
Marxist principles.
The worst
article by far is by Waffen SS General Leon Degrelle, who was a Belgian that
volunteered for service in the German military in World War II. He venerates
Hitler and Mussolini, assigning them attributes they simply did not have. The
worst claim is that Hitler made German science even greater, when in fact his
persecutions gutted the German scientific community. Many of the scientists
that built the atomic bomb in America fled Europe when Hitler came to power.
One of the most
worthless books ever written, it is everything from a big lie to an
anti-Semitic diatribe.
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