Customer Rating: 
Summary: Liked it, however
Comment: The idea that America should get credit for ending slavery is simply not true. I did like the book overall. Mexico had ended slavery in the Americas first due to fighting the Spanairds who had in turn enslaved them. As a matter of fact that was one of the reasons Mexico sent troops to stop the revolts on Mexican soil (Texas) because the ex-American patriots wanted their RIGHT to own slaves which the Mexicans really didn't care for after having fought off the Spainards to end their own slavery.
Customer Rating: Summary: Must READ!!
Comment: This should be required reading in all venues. It is refreshing to read some actual facts and a good counterpoint to the hype the media loves to put out.
Customer Rating: Summary: Ha ha ha!
Comment: 10 Big Lies About America.
This was whining but I liked it.
To be honest, I'm having trouble finding really GREAT books
to read since I switched to my Kindle.
The most engrossing read so far has been "Diary of a Lost Girl,"
the memoir by Osama Bin Laden's mistress/sex slave Kola Boof and
the fact that I originally didn't believe her story shocks me
now that I read the book.
I hated when that book ended, it was surprisingly thorough, very
well written and fantastically entertaining, mainly because of the
author's blunt candor. So if you want Medved's same political views
but from an African immigrant who loves America with good reason in better detail as to WHY then you might want to sample that book.
Anybody know any other really GREAT books they've read on their Kindle,
post 'em!
Customer Rating: Summary: Rant-O-Rama
Comment: "The 10 Big Lies About America" taught as truth on Talk Radio and Fixed Noise is a grotesque, propagandistic distortion of the historical record.
And how's this for a doozie of a distortion? "the U.S. deserves unique CREDIT for ending slavery."
Yeah. Right Michael. How long again after Britain banned slavery did that happen in the US? Where does the 'credit' part come in?
Customer Rating: Summary: tilting at windmills
Comment: Medved is a good writer and has done his research for this book.
Unfortunately I take issue with the entire premise of the book, which is that these 10 lies of his are everywhere, are inarguably pervasive in our culture, and must be undone to save America.
Medved takes a good first step in fighting these concepts by revising them to sound as extreme as possible. I don't know anyone who has spoken any of these opposing statements, or supports any of the very extreme views that he quotes in his book. He creates the all-too-familiar conservative podium that we the conservative people are under attack and must fight to survive etc etc. But he represents the opposition opinion in a way that the common person couldn't possibly agree with them; it's a "DISTORTION" of other peoples opinion, and 'distorting' is something the book warns against and accuses other of repeatedly.
I got this book as a gift and hadn't heard of Medved before this. I could tell right from the title though what I was in for: "BIG LIES", these are the "TOP 10" of them, and in this book is the artillery you will need to "COMBAT" these "DESTRUCTIVE" lies about our country. Well, the arguments he makes are good ones, very solid, but he's arguing against self-crafted extreme viewpoints. Two BIG lies I hear spread throuhg our country are, "socialist ideas can only be bad for America", and "everyone in America has an equal chance to succeed." I guess that's someone elses book though.
If you're a conservative and you want to bring this to your book club, it's a great choice; you'll whoop and pat eachother on the back a lot and only distance yourselves further from your fellow Americans. But if you're an average American whose ideas are dynamic and have variance, you'll just feel accused and disconnected from this conservative combat manual.
If given the choice, I'd pass.
