Diane Burrowes of Harper Collins Publishers passed this list out today at AHA Session #38: “Buying and Selling History: Some Perspectives on the Marketplace.” See our post on the session here. See our storified tweets here.
Thanks to Marla Miller for posting this to twitter:
I am relieved that the descriptor history is in quotation marks.
Glenn Beck tops the list. But how many historians have read this book or responded to it? As you'd expect, there's a lot of crazy in it. But unless real historians say so, how is Beck's wider audience (those who haven't drunk the kook-aid) going to know?
For examples: http://danallosso.me/?s=glenn&x=0&y=0