I FIRST BECAME AWARE of Thomas E. Woods Jr.’s Politically Incorrect Guide to American History when the New York Times Book Review took note of its rise on the paperback bestseller list and described it as a “neocon retelling of this nation’s back story.” A neocon retelling? What would that be, exactly? Curious to find out, I cracked open The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

It gets off to a slow start with a recitation of civics-text nuggets. Bet you didn’t know that the Constitution “established three distinct branches of government–executive, legislative, and judicial–and provided ‘checks and balances’ by which each branch could resist the encroachments of another”!

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