{"id":9001,"date":"2013-06-20T22:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=9001"},"modified":"2013-06-23T14:10:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T21:10:33","slug":"book-review-50-american-revolutions-youre-not-supposed-to-know-reclaiming-american-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/06\/20\/book-review-50-american-revolutions-youre-not-supposed-to-know-reclaiming-american-patriotism\/","title":{"rendered":"book review: 50 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS YOU\u2019RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW &#8211; Reclaiming American Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9002\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/50-American-Revolutions.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9002\" alt=\"50 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS YOU\u2019RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW - Reclaiming American Patriotism\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/50-American-Revolutions-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/50-American-Revolutions.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/50-American-Revolutions.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">50 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS YOU\u2019RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[Books]<\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>50 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS YOU\u2019RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW &#8211; Reclaiming American Patriotism<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>\u201cMy country, right or wrong!\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><b>Reviewed by Bob Yunger<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>50 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS YOU\u2019RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW &#8211; Reclaiming American Patriotism<\/em>, by Mickey Z, 155 pages, 5&#215;5\u201d paperback, from Disinformation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many years ago I read Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s words that he thought it was absurd for anyone to accuse someone of being un-American, because, after all, would you ever say a German was un-German, or a Frenchman was un-French? That was the general gist of it. Which brings us to another abstract concept: when someone says the phrase, \u201cMy country, right or wrong,\u201d what comes to mind for you? Is it an automatic defense of any behavior as long as patriotism is the motive? Or does it mean something else? Does bigoted and immoral zealots wrapping their greed and hatred with the flag fill you with contempt and make you want to do something to stop it and change your country into something it can be that\u2019s better than that? If so, good. Then you\u2019re the real patriot. This book, published at the height of the Iraq\/Afghan War in 2005 when George W was in his second term covers revolutionary events from Thomas Paine publishing Common Sense to \u201cThe Battle In Seattle\u201d and the families of 9-11 victims saying \u201cno\u201d to revenge. A current update of this book might have Ron Paul and the Tea Party movement, Wikileak\u2019s collaborator Bradley Manning story and Edward Snowden\u2019s revelation of Federal domestic spying. Because, like Adolf Hitler appearing on the January 2, 1939, cover of Time as \u201cMan Of The Year,\u201d even if you don\u2019t agree with the ideology, the significance of their acts are revolutionary. [disinfo.com] ~BY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Books] 50 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS YOU\u2019RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW &#8211; Reclaiming American Patriotism Tweet \u201cMy country, right or wrong!\u201d Reviewed by Bob Yunger 50 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS YOU\u2019RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW &#8211; Reclaiming American Patriotism, by Mickey Z, 155 pages, 5&#215;5\u201d paperback, from Disinformation Many years ago I read Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s words that he thought it was absurd for anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[598,578,730,740],"tags":[835,834,837,860],"class_list":["post-9001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news-commentary","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-right-or-wrong","tag-my-country","tag-my-country-right-or-wrong","tag-860"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2006\/07\/02\/50-american-revolutions-you%e2%80%99re-not-supposed-to-know-book-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":9001,"position":0},"title":"50 American Revolutions You\u2019re Not Supposed To Know book review","author":"admin","date":"July 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201c50 American Revolutions You\u2019re Not Supposed To Know\u201d (disinformation) Book review by John Trent This cat that goes by the handle Mickey Z has put together a compendium of 50 things he deems radical, steps toward American Enlightenment, but that are hushed up, ignored, kept from the mouths of babes,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;archive&quot;","block_context":{"text":"archive","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/archive\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4370,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2011\/04\/08\/t-s-o-l-jack-grishams-an-american-demon\/","url_meta":{"origin":9001,"position":1},"title":"T.S.O.L. 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