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100 1  Sirvent, Roberto,|eauthor. 
245 10 American exceptionalism and American innocence :|ba 
       people's history of fake news : from the Revolutionary War
       to the War on Terror /|cRoberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bSkyhorse 
       Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media,|c2019. 
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520    A survey of some of the "fake news" reported to the 
       American people over the last few centuries. According to 
       Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been 
       exposed to fake news throughout our history--news that 
       slavery is a thing of the past, that we don't live on 
       stolen land, that wars are fought to spread freedom and 
       democracy, that a rising tide lifts all boats, that 
       prisons keep us safe, and that the police serve and 
       protect. Thus, the only "news" ever reported by various 
       channels of U.S. empire is the news of American 
       exceptionalism and American innocence. And, as this book 
       will hopefully show, it's all fake. Did the U.S. really 
       "save the world" in World War II? Should black athletes 
       stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America 
       has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and 
       democracy? Or is this all fake news? American 
       Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories
       we're told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force 
       for good in the world, regardless of slavery, the genocide
       of indigenous people, and the more than a century's worth 
       of imperialist war that the U.S. has wrought on the 
       planet. Sirvent and Haiphong detail just what Captain 
       America's shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. 
       foreign policy, how Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates engage 
       in humanitarian imperialism, and why the Broadway musical 
       Hamilton is a monument to white supremacy. "Danny Haiphong
       and Roberto Sirvent are two of the most courageous and 
       truthful intellectuals in the belly of the U.S. imperial 
       beast! In this powerful text they lay bare the hidden 
       realities and concealed miseries of poor and working 
       peoples even as revolutionary fire remains strong! This 
       book keeps alive so much of the best of the radical 
       tradition in the neo-fascist age of Trump!" --Cornel West,
       Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard 
       University "In a damning indictment of the collapse of the
       American Empire and its Democratic, Republican, and 
       corporate media overseers, Roberto Sirvent and Danny 
       Haiphong expose the ruling class propaganda machine as it 
       worships at the altar of austerity, war, and white 
       supremacy. This book argues that efforts to produce a 
       kinder, gentler corporatist American state are misguided 
       and demonstrates that a radical, even revolutionary 
       alternative is our only hope." --Chris Hedges, Pulitzer 
       Prize-winning journalist, author of America: The Farewell 
       Tour 
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650  0 National characteristics, American|xPolitical aspects. 
650  0 Exceptionalism|zUnited States. 
650  0 Fake news|zUnited States. 
650  0 Press and politics|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Nationalism|xHistory. 
650  0 Americanization. 
651  0 United States|xForeign relations|xPsychological aspects. 
653    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies 
655  0 Electronic books. 
700 1  Haiphong, Danny,|eauthor. 
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