What is History? Or what is correct History versus incorrect History? That is of course one of the most important questions
any historian needs to ask himself everytime he or she re-
interprets the historical sources and writes a chapter on what happened in the past.In "The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History" Thomas E. Woods re-interprets different issues in American History. The starting point is a wide range of "common understandings" of what happend in the past and the author then discusses these "myths" and re-interprets the periode of the myth. The result is what he calls the Politically incorrect version of the American History. It is an
interesting way of writing history because any interpretation of the sources is subjective. It will always be under the influence of the authors understanding of the issue. So, many chapters of history may have been written in a way that most people could agree to - but that may not be the exact truth. So re-interpreting the historical sources is always interesting and it brings forth new aspects of history. That is why this book is worth reading. It makes you re-think different aspects of History.