"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble," nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. "It's the things we know that just ain't so."<br><br><br>In this bold <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country–in spite of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. <br><br>The Big Lies exposed and dissected include:<br><br>• America was founded on genocide against Native Americans.<br>• The United States is uniquely guilty for the crime of slavery and built its wealth on stolen African labor.<br>• Aggressive governmental programs offer the only remedy for economic downturns and poverty.<br>• The Founders intended a secular, not Christian, nation.<br><br>Each of the ten lies is a grotesque, propagandistic misrepresentation of the historical record. Medved's witty, well-documented rebuttal supplies the ammunition necessary to fire back the next time somebody tries to recycle destructive distortions about our nation.<i><br><br></i>