Harvard Representative and Keynote Speaker, International Student Fair, Bucharest, Romania
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CRITICAL ACCLAIM"Seymour Morris Jr entertains and startles us with missing facts our teachers failed to mention
Morris is not intending for his book to substitute what we are taught but rather to bring more interest and depth to what we know. American History Revised is an entertaining read that will leave the reader with interesting facts for conversations starters, debates, or back-up for those ‘I’m right, you’re wrong’ sorts of arguments. I recommend taking a peek at the pages the next time you are perusing the shelves of your favorite bookstore."--Paige Sykes-- ANDMAGAZINE “American History Revised offers an overview of American history by focusing on many facts and episodes that, 'startling' or not, do indeed often throw light on our peculiarly complicated country, its past, and, inevitably, it’s present and even future. I doubt that there is a single reader who won’t find many of the essays genuinely illuminating — Morris is a master of the concise essay — and often challenging. Morris is opinionated; few readers will agree with him in all of his opinions, but he is a wonderful person to engage with.” -- HISTORY BOOK CLUB
“Eye-opening, interesting and lively. If schools put it on the curriculum, kids would pay more attention… American History Revised should be required reading for anyone in public office, a potent reminder that real history, not the tabloid fodder sprayed across the nightly news, is often made far from the limelight.” -- HUFFINGTON POST “In his new book, Seymour Morris Jr. shows that American history is like an iceberg, with the best parts long hidden from view. American History Revised is as informative as it is entertaining and humorous. Filled with irony, surprises, and long-hidden secrets, the book does more than revise American history, it reinvents it.” -- JAMES BAMFORD (best-selling author of The Puzzle Palace, and Body of Secrets) “Seymour Morris Jr. is certainly not the first to take a lateral look at the moments when the facts conflict with legend and choose to print the facts. He is, however, the most readable and authoritative. This is a lucid, provocative and thoroughly enjoyable book, full of eye-opening surprises and tantalizing what-ifs, which can be read cover to cover or dipped into like a box of favorite candies.”.-- THE BOOKWEB “Many believe that history is inflexible and chiseled in stone. The simple fact is that history is much more fluid. In fact, according to this fascinating book, history is generally filled with ironies, surprises, and misconceptions. Witty, lucid, and playful, this is a book that will leave you astonished, entertained, and, yes, enlightened.”-- TUCSON CITIZEN "In American History Revised, author Seymour Morris Jr. delivers useful and entertaining snippets of American history. These pages reminds us that if humans indeed learn from our past – in order not to repeat mistakes – then history books lacking these facts should be swiftly updated."-- SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW “This is a deeply fascinating book, and one that should appeal to a broad spectrum of readers, from students to history buffs to trivia addicts.” -- BOOKLIST "Filled with ironies, surprises, and misconceptions, American history is quite different and more remarkable than is usually thought. For example, the U.S. Navy staged a mock attack on Pearl Harbor in 1932 that led it to conclude that the entire fleet of ships and planes stationed there was vulnerable to being wiped out. The Navy swore this could never happen and forgot about it. But the Japanese noticed and, on December 7, 1941, copied the military exercise exactly."-- HBS September 2010 Bulletin, Alumni Books |
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