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Enlightening

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This books provides a clear and concise record of what our forefathers intended when writing the first amendment. Especially revealing are the other proposals written by the house and senate for this admendment. It becomes obvious that our government was never intended to operate in the absence of christian religion, but to avoid the mandating(enforcing) of any paticular christian belief system on the common man, providing freedom of religion. Great book, I would recommend to anybody. Includes over 100 pages of reference material to verify the historical accuracy.

What more can be said?

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Many people more knowledgeable in American History than I have already said about all there is to say on the historical errors in this book. What a shame - I had high hopes for this book.

Unintented Revisionism or Plain Bad Scholarship

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I'm normally a science and math teacher. One book I normally assign to my AP students (Calculus, Chemistry and Physics) discusses the misuse of statistics. If I were teaching the AP U.S. History class, I would use this book as an example of poor historical scholarship. As it stands there is so much bad science out there that I have my students find and criticize it themselves. Bad history which creates misperceptions about our country is in another category. Science inherently acknowledges that it is a work-in-progress (except for evolution which is treated as iron-clad truth--don't get me started!). On the other hand, history books containing bona fide errors gravely disservice everyone.

Buy this book only if you want to see what I mean by bad history!

Sabotage Agenda By Leftists

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After searching for the book "Ten Tortured Words" on the net back in August of last year, I found there was a concerted effort by a well known Leftist blog called Daily Kos, that encouraged their readers to go on Amazon and trash the book. No matter if the reviewers had read the book or not. Google "Ten Tortured Words," you'll see the Daily Kos page encouraging the deception. The object was to have large numbers say they reviewed the book, and by lying they had read the book, to deceive those of us that went on Amazon to find honest reviews of the books offered there. I've found that the Leftists are doing the same thing to another book on Amazon called "Liberal Fascists" by encouraging it's readers to post bogus negative reviews as well. I wanted to warn buyers on Amazon back in August of the deception, and orchestrated effort of these Leftists websites to deceive them by posting negative bogus reviews to sway the rating system and by doing that to discourage Amazon buyers from purchasing the book. But I waited, thinking that Amazon or someone surely would notify the buying public on Amazon of this despicable and deceitful effort by Daily Kos Leftists, as well as other Leftist websites to deliberately deceive the buyers on Amazon who wish only to read honest, truthful reviews without some sort of orchestrated agenda of deception.

Any book should stand on it's on without being the subject of any groups efforts at tying to suppress the readership of a book by using orchestrated, bogus and deceitful tactics to corrupt the rating system. Using honest reviews is one thing, but encouraging reviews by those who have not read the book is another. The 17 negative reviews on Amazon were put there within a few days of Daily Kos initiating the deceptive assualt on the ratings system for "Ten Tortured Words."

I know, because I watched it happen day by day, as I tried to find unbiased reviews of the book on Amazon. It seems to me the Left would like to suppress, or prohibit those books they do not agree with if it were possible for them to do so. Orchestrated, deceptive efforts to sway the rating system on Amazon is not the ethical way to refute what they perceive as errors in the book.

Lamenting the "good old days"

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This book does no more than wish that we were back in the '50s again.

The author has done an adequate job of research into the topic of various court cases that he brings up as important to religious beliefs in this country. What he shows is that over the last 50 years, American society has become significantly more liberal. He blames that liberalism on the court system, and on lawmakers who accept court rulings without trying to override them by passing new bills in Congress.

At the end of the book, I was expecting some sort of call to action to urge our Congressmen to pass new legislation that would perhaps restore some of the '50s ideals. Instead, he does mention that some pieces of legislation have been introduced, some more than once, but with no obvious chance of success. The ending was a surprise in its lack of an action plan and its level of depression.

If you like to sit around with your friends and discuss the days when your kids could walk home from school without fear, when you could leave your house unlocked most of the day, and when practically everyone in your neighborhood went to church on Sunday morning, this is the book for you.