“YANKEE BABYLON” BY MACDONALD KING ASTON IS NOW AVAILABLE.
Orange Beach, Alabama - The hard-hitting and long-awaited Yankee Babylon is available immediately from The Fire Eater website (www.fireeater.org). To order just click on the link at the top of the page. (You can order autographed copies as well.)
From the publishing summary:
“Secularised and hidden away in a thousand useless history books, brimming with the Big Lie of the Yankee Myth, the myth of Lincoln, of perpetual war, of the holy dollar, and of the Puritans’ City upon a Hill, is a real America. You won’t find the real America in your history books, for those books are filled with the propaganda of the Yankee and his mythology. Casting a cold eye on the “Evil Twins” of the 1860s and 1960s, Yankee Babylon ruthlessly exposes the truth of both who we are and how we got here: not to a free republic of free men and women, but to an American Empire. To a Yankee Babylon.”
Yankee Babylon is unique in its sphere of historical, cultural, and ideological analysis. The author aims at nothing less than a complete exposé of the propaganda spread from New England from the 1600s to modern times. In exposing the Yankee culture, the author uses two timeframes to show how the "Yankee Myth" penetrated all of American culture: the 1860s and the 1960s. The 1860s show the results of the "great inversion" of the Puritan to the Yankee and answers the question: "Who are we?" The 1960s show the Yankee mythology in its modern garb and answers the question: "How did we get to where we are today?" Tackling diverse topics such as American exceptionalism, "the Civil War," propaganda, literature, the culture of New England and its supremacy by violence, Yankee Babylon also answers a question barely mentioned in historical studies: "Who and what is a Yankee?"
With an extensive bibliography and index, Yankee Babylon relies upon facts, not ideology, to answer the troubling questions of our times.
To follow Yankee Babylon, you can go to the Yankee Babylon page on Facebook or to the Fire Eater site (www.fireater.com). Email questions to yankeebabylon@gmail.com.=
From the publishing summary:
“Secularised and hidden away in a thousand useless history books, brimming with the Big Lie of the Yankee Myth, the myth of Lincoln, of perpetual war, of the holy dollar, and of the Puritans’ City upon a Hill, is a real America. You won’t find the real America in your history books, for those books are filled with the propaganda of the Yankee and his mythology. Casting a cold eye on the “Evil Twins” of the 1860s and 1960s, Yankee Babylon ruthlessly exposes the truth of both who we are and how we got here: not to a free republic of free men and women, but to an American Empire. To a Yankee Babylon.”
Yankee Babylon is unique in its sphere of historical, cultural, and ideological analysis. The author aims at nothing less than a complete exposé of the propaganda spread from New England from the 1600s to modern times. In exposing the Yankee culture, the author uses two timeframes to show how the "Yankee Myth" penetrated all of American culture: the 1860s and the 1960s. The 1860s show the results of the "great inversion" of the Puritan to the Yankee and answers the question: "Who are we?" The 1960s show the Yankee mythology in its modern garb and answers the question: "How did we get to where we are today?" Tackling diverse topics such as American exceptionalism, "the Civil War," propaganda, literature, the culture of New England and its supremacy by violence, Yankee Babylon also answers a question barely mentioned in historical studies: "Who and what is a Yankee?"
With an extensive bibliography and index, Yankee Babylon relies upon facts, not ideology, to answer the troubling questions of our times.
To follow Yankee Babylon, you can go to the Yankee Babylon page on Facebook or to the Fire Eater site (www.fireater.com). Email questions to yankeebabylon@gmail.com.=
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