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OMG!!!! This is a really long book (977 pages before you get to the footnotes) and it's broken up into only 8 chapters. I don't know about you, but I can't devote 4 or 5 hours in one sitting to reading ONE chapter. But I started reading it a little bit at a time probably 3 months ago. And, honestly, I was enjoying it overall because although I'm well educated, there are still a lot of holes in my knowledge of American history and I was hoping to get a good overview. I "learned" a lot (more about this in a moment) in the early going, but I was tired of working away on it so I resolved to finish off the last 250 pages or so in one day. Just do nothing but read until I was done. Well, things started getting a little strange right around Warren G. Harding who, according to the author, was a fabulous president who really wasn't responsible for the Teapot Dome or any of his other scandals. (Harding was a Republican.) Fast forward to Herbert Hoover (a Republican) who, according to the author, handled the Great Depression really, really well and had all his ideas stolen by the Democrat FDR (who apparently never did anything good in his entire presidency). Hmmmm. I seem to be sensing a theme here. Fast forward to Democrat LBJ and the horrible things he did to the country by trying to help little old ladies and the poor. Hmmmm. I kind of like Medicare. But then it REALLY gets interesting. Apparently, the Republican Nixon was the greatest president in the history of the world who handled the Vietnam War beautifully. Apparently, it was "the blacks," those lazy, meddling white students and the liberal media that turned the public against Vietnam and it was a totally winnable war (the author really needs to check out Ken Burns documentary and listen to the tapes where Nixon says that he knows the Americans can't win the war, but he won't leave because he wants to get re-elected). And I also "learned" that Nixon knew nothing about Watergate, obstruction of justice isn't a real thing and FAKE NEWS persecuted him!!! From this point on I skimmed the last 80 pages because I was about to have a stroke. But I did "learn" that Reagan was brilliant, but just a little "forgetful," that Iran Contra was FAKE NEWS, and that Reagan's higher deficit was somehow superior to Carter's lower deficit, that women were doing SUPER GOOD in the 90's and were really getting more high-paid jobs than those silly statistics would show us, that the only good thing Clinton did was to rein in those Welfare Queens, that Brown v. Board of Education was judicial activism, that affirmative action was evil, that the Congressional Black Caucus was/is racist, that the term Hispanic is somehow offensive and that political correctness was/is literally as bad as the Salem Witch Trials and Communist blacklisting. Wow, just wow. So the worst thing about this book is that I am now questioning every single word I read before I got to that awesome Harding fellow. So I wasted probably 30 hours of my life to read propaganda when I could just turn on Fox News and get my fill a lot more quickly. Man, this guy would have LOVED Donald Trump.