Unless you have been blessed to have been taught by one
of those rare, magical, teachers who embraced the teaching of history and
delivered depth, context and colors of the story of our nation and world; then
all too often history was boiled down to the bland recitation of a list of
dates and dead guys.
Glenn Beck and his team of writers is out with Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the
Heroes and Villains Who Made America, the second in a series of books that
offer short historical “fiction” pieces that examine a variety of points in our
history and flesh them out by piecing together a variety of sources. Is there a
bit of poetic license? Certainly! But by in large these stories hang together
and really make history interesting. I look at these short pieces as an
invitation to delve a whole lot deeper into the stories that catch your
imagination.
The names: Ponzi, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Steve Jobs,
among them, are often familiar, but their stories may not be. Dreamers and Deceivers offers up some new
perspective on the stories of these men who influenced our history. While Ponzi
became infamous for his “scheme” exactly what that ruse was may not be widely
known; now you can get a basic sense of his story.
It is often eye opening to learn how the media and
history for that matter treated many of the subjects of these stories. It seems
amazing, but not surprising that the media still lauded Alger Hiss, a convicted
perjurer and Communist upon his passing; Hiss infamously thought more highly of
mass-murdering, Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin than he did of his own country.
When you place that historical reference side by side with the current Liberal
school of thought and how we as a country view terrorism, history becomes absolutely frightening.
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