The grassroots right-wing army that had lost with Goldwater in 1964 had survived to fight a thousand battles more. For instance, since 1966, they’d been battling the toxic eighth-grade history textbook Land of the Free by John Hope Franklin, circulating a filmstrip that alternated passages from the book with readings from the Communist Manifesto, and putting out pamphlets by FACTS in Education—the acronym stood for Fundamental issues, Americanism, Constitutional government, Truth, and Spiritual values—tut-tutting the book’s favorable mention of Martin Luther King despite his “record of 60
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