“Students are simply not learning even those details of American history that educated citizens should know. Still less do they learn what caused the major developments in our past. Therefore, they cannot apply lessons from the past to current issues. …Unfortunately, students are left with no resources to understand, accept, or rebut historical referents used in arguments by candidates for office, sociology professors, or newspaper journalists….Emotion is the glue that causes history to stick.”P342

“Having ignored why the federal government acts as it does, textbooks proceed to ignore much of what the government does. Textbook authors portray the U.S. government’s actions as agreeable and nice, even when U.S. government officials have admitted motives and intentions of a quite different nature.(p226)…Educators and textbook authors seem to want to inculcate the next generation into blind allegiance to our country….Citizens who embrace the textbook view would presumably support any intervention, armed or otherwise, and any policy, protective of our legitimate national interests or not, because they would be persuaded that all our policies and interventions are on behalf of humanitarian aims. They could never credit our enemies with equal humanity."p235