Jag är mitt uppe i
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World av Otto English. Fick den som julklapp av äldsta sonens slovenska flickvän/sambo (tillika kollega, de är lite diskreta om sin relation på arbetet), jag har en vag misstanke om att sonen gav lite input innan valet.
Jag är då, som vanligt, för lat att skriva själv så jag stjäl hejdlöst från Amazon:
'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO
'An important new book' Daily Express
An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time.
Lincoln did not believe all men were created equal.
The Aztecs were not slaughtered by the Spanish Conquistadors.
And Churchill was not the man that people love to remember.
In this fascinating new book, journalist and author Otto English takes ten great lies from history and shows how our present continues to be manipulated by the fabrications of the past.
He looks at how so much of what we take to be historical fact is, in fact, fiction. From the myths of WW2 to the adventures of Columbus, and from the self-serving legends of 'great men' to the origins of curry – fake history is everywhere and used ever more to impact our modern world.
Setting out to redress the balance, English tears apart the lies propagated by politicians and think tanks, the grand narratives spun by populists and the media, the stories on your friend's Facebook feed and the tales you were told in childhood. And, in doing so, reclaims the truth from those who have perverted it.
Fake History exposes everything you weren't told in school and why you weren't taught it.
https://www.amazon.com/Fake-History-Gre ... 1787396428
Mina personliga kommentarer är att Otto (kan en britt heta så, tydligen
inte) skriver med en hel del underfundig humor instoppad i texten och att han är aningen 'Britticentrisk'.
Läs den. Och Glad Påsk.
MVH
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