Honestly Oblivious Guide (HOG)

I recently read the 2004 book, The Politically Incorrect Guide (PIG) to American History. I bought it think it'd be interesting, maybe even as humorous as The Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents. No such luck.

While they started off with notes about history that were agreeable - for example, calling the American revolutionaries "conservatives" (in the modern sense of the word, not the contemporary definition) because they opposed higher taxes and a distant central government. But it started going downhill with its implication that historians don't want you to know Jefferson support nullification - I knew that and know for a fact that it's a freely accepted fact, so the bias in the book reared its head.

After bashing the Radical Republicans, it started covered U.S. Presidential terms in 1900 and beyond - and that is where the point of the book became truly apparent. With a few passing exceptions and references, the rest of the book focused on what can only be described as a hatchet job. It skipped most mentions of Republicans (except to give Joe McCarthy a chapter of praise), while bashing Democrats from FDR and JFK, to Carter and Clinton. Indeed, no mention was made at all of Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, or either Bush.

This is a horribly written book. I would not recommend it even to my Republican friends. It is not just politically incorrect, its an incomplete and ideological history book. Don't buy or read this book unless you specifically want to rant against past Democratic presidents.