History As Mystery

by Parenti, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780872863576
• ISBN10: 0872863573
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: City Lights Books

Summary

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 ContentsPrologue: Against the Mainstream History as Miseducation Mainstream Orthodoxy The Hunt for Real History Textbooks: America the Beautiful For Business, Against Labor The School as a Tool 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 Bishops and Barbarians, Jezebels and Jews The Myth of the Devout Peasant The Curse of Eve The Burning of Books Preparing the Holocaust History in the Faking Suppression at the Point of Origin Cold War in the Archives Classified History, USA Listening to the Muted Masses In Ranke's Footsteps His Majesty's Servant An ''Aristocratic Profession'' Purging the Reds Publishing and ''Privishing'' Marketing the Right Stuff 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 Against Psychopolitics Depoliticizing the Political Dubious Clinical Data Lenin as Oedipus The Compulsive Hoover The Political Hoover When the Political Becomes Personal Afterword

Table of Contents

Prologue: Against the Mainstream	xi
History as Miseducation	1	(34)
Mainstream Orthodoxy	1	(5)
The Hunt for Real History	6	(5)
Textbooks: America the Beautiful	11	(6)
For Business, Against Labor	17	(5)
The School as a Tool	22	(13)
Priests and Pagans, Saints and Slaves	35	(42)
Triumph of the One True Faith	35	(10)
Silencing the Pagans	45	(2)
Accepting the Powers that Be	47	(7)
Affluent Believers	54	(8)
Saints For Slavery	62	(15)
Bishops and Barbarians, Jezebels and Jews	77	(52)
The Myth of the Devout Peasant	77	(6)
The Curse of Eve	83	(12)
The Burning of Books	95	(8)
Preparing the Holocaust	103	(26)
History in the Faking	129	(36)
Suppression at the Point of Origin	129	(8)
Cold War in the Archives	137	(5)
Classified History, USA	142	(12)
Listening to the Muted Masses	154	(11)
In Ranke's Footsteps	165	(44)
His Majesty's Servant	166	(5)
An ``Aristocratic Profession''	171	(5)
Purging the Reds	176	(7)
Publishing and ``Privishing''	183	(7)
Marketing the Right Stuff	190	(19)
The Strange Death of President Zachary Taylor, a Study in the Manufacture of Mainstream History	209	(32)
Examining the Examination	212	(8)
Confrontation with the Slavocracy	220	(4)
A lethal Dose of Cherries and Milk?	224	(5)
Honorable Men and Official History	229	(12)
Against Psychopolitics	241	(1)
Depoliticizing the Political	241	(7)
Dubious Clinical Data	248	(4)
Lenin as Oedipus	252	(3)
The Compulsive Hoover	255	(2)
The Political Hoover	257	(5)
When the Political Becomes Personal	262	(4)
Afterword	266