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A Renegade History Of The United States (2010)

by Thaddeus Russell(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

141657106X (ISBN13: 9781416571063)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Free Press

review 1: I became interested in ‘A Renegade History of The United States’, after seeing Thaddeus Russell on Jon Stewart, and a program with Henry Rollins. Unfortunately this title falls into the category of ‘history’ books I dislike the most, books where the author has an agenda/theory which is presented at the beginning of the chapter and proceeds to beat the shit out of you with it, for the next thirty to forty pages, sometimes into the next chapter (most of which I disagreed with). I am sure there is some degree of truth to Mr. Russell’s writing, but presenting the facts and letting the reader make the determination, rather than ushering an idea through, is better.
review 2: First, I did enjoy the writing style. However, passing this book off as nonfictio... moren is a far stretch. There is not a single reference that you can track. Talk about plagiarism. And this, from a guy who professes to be a History teacher. He puts the n-word in parenthesis as if it is a direct quote at least everything other page. I think that one of his primary goals was to see exactly how many times he could write racial epithets directed at black people and get away with it. What I expected was a book about people who really bucked the system and changed the United States. I know about people like Robert Johnson, Sally Ride, and Steve Jobs. Tell me about lesser known people who made great impacts. What I got was 300 pages about how all white Americans strategically distanced themselves from black Americans in an effort to be "true" Americans because black Americans can never really be Americans. We are the renegades because we're lazy, prefer to be slaves so we don't have to take care of ourselves, and have never contributed anything to the world other than singing and dancing.However, the positive side of this book is that the United States is a really great country and one in which everyone can succeed. Even a fool like Thaddeus Russell can pass himself off as an expert and somebody believes it. less

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