I finished this after "American Lion", the first Michael Medved book I've read all the way through in some time.
As is always the case with Medved the read is easy, the information is explosive.
Going through the pages I already knew much of what he was writing about through my reading and studies, but not to such a deep extent.
Also there were little memories popping into my head that I had learned much of this when I was a kid.
Over the course of time, especially by the end of high school and through the education process, everything was flipped on its head. America was an evil place, full slave owning, gun-toting, Christian, hypocrites.
If that sounds cliched it is. The repeated mantra of America being less than exceptional, less than the last best hope for mankind as Lincoln said, has become cliched.
As short a time as it was, and so so so long ago, I do have blessed memories of being taught the greatness of America and being instilled with a love of country.
This book brings much of that back to the surface...if you are as old as me. If you are younger or have children needing to hear something other than the cliches of America is not all its cracked up to be, that it should be more like Sweden or France, or that it needs to regain its credibility around the world...this is the book to read and to have your kids read. Particularly Big Lie #4
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