(2015-12-10, 12:14 pm)john555 Wrote: Look, you can call my politics whatever you want but Howard Zinn's view are NOT the mainstream.  I don't think that most Americans hate their own country.

The books you recommended are not mainstream either and nobody mentioned Howard Zinn being mainstream.  But I don't think most Americans hate their country either - far from it.  I just don't think you are doing our country any favors by talking only about the good things we do and the bad things other countries do.

(2015-12-10, 11:49 am)john555 Wrote: For American history, I would recommend reading "A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to America's Age of Entitlement" by Larry Schweikart.  For younger readers, the Rush Revere history series is recommended.

Out of curiosity how do you reconcile your desire to learn the truth with the obvious bias of that book? Based on the title it seems to be selling itself on a promise not to present things in an honest manner unless they already conform to a certain viewpoint.

The standard neo-con line is that "mainstream journalism" is biased liberal propaganda and "academics" are biased liberals living in ivory towers with no sense of reality.  So finally there are news outlets like fox news to "tell it like like it really is".  The problem with this, of course is you can believe anything if you don't question your assumptions.

Is this a serious question? And are people still pushing the narrative that the A bombs were "necessary"?

If we're talking about remorse wrt to Japan we could at least focus on the issue of Korean comfort women or the Rape of Nanjing.

歴史秘話ヒストリア　“裏切り”の声は甘く悲しく ～太平洋戦争のラジオアイドル 東京ローズ～
http://www.nhk.or.jp/historia/backnumber/228.html

歴史秘話 ヒストリア 東京ローズ 反逆罪とされた アメリカ人女性の 悲劇　第2次世界大戦
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2flukq
[Edit: the audio kicks-in after 2:00 minute mark]

1976 CBS News Special Report
American Unsung Hero. Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Iva Ikuko Toguri)

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