The Untold History of the United States

Bibliographic Data

ID5705159
AuthorsSusan L Carruther (corresponding author), L Carruther, Susan L Carruthers (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume100
Issue3
Pages924-929
Publication date2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jahist/jat536
OpenAlexW2327360434
LanguageEN
Citations received7

An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect upon this world, with its towers of hatred. It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble.” So wrote Victor Hugo of the French revolutionary protagonists in Les Misérables (1862) (p. 743). But he might have been describing the guiding impetus behind The Untold History of the United States, which exhibits a similar impulse to throw light in “terrible handfuls” into the eyes of the unbelieving—to arouse, push, shock—and “not to let up until scales have noisily fallen. ...After Aeschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton” (ibid.). And after Georges Danton, Oliver Stone. In ten hour-long episodes, Stone and his cowriter, Peter Kuznick, set out to recast U.S. history from World War II to the present. After four chapters devoted to an examination of the war and its

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · First world war · Fortress (chess · Hatred · Political science · Politics · World War II · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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