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History as Mystery
Michael Parenti
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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Contents
Prologue: Against the Mainstream
1. History as Miseducation
Mainstream Orthodoxy
The Hunt for Real History
Textbooks: America the Beautiful
For Business, Against Labor
The School as a Tool
2. Priests and Pagans, Saints and Slaves
Triumph of the One True Faith
Silencing the Pagans
Accepting the Powers that Be
Affluent Believers
Saints For Slavery
3. Bishops and Barbarians, Jezebels and Jews
The Myth of the Devout Peasant
The Curse of Eve
The Burning of Books
Preparing the Holocaust
4. History in the Faking
Suppression at the Point of Origin
Cold War in the Archives
Classified History, USA
Listening to the Muted Masses
5. In Ranke’s Footsteps
His Majesty’s Servant
An “Aristocratic Profession”
Purging the Reds
Publishing and “Privishing”
Marketing the Right Stuff
6. The Strange Death of President Zachary Taylor, a Study in the Manufacture of Mainstream History
Examining the Examination
Confrontation with the Slavocracy
A Lethal Dose of Cherries and Milk?
Honorable Men and Official History
7. Against Psychopolitics
Depoliticizing the Political
Dubious Clinical Data
Lenin as Oedipus
The Compulsive Hoover
The Political Hoover
When the Political Becomes Personal
Afterword
Michael Parenti
History as Mystery
