Thursday, April 24, 2014
So far there have been four reviews of my new book. Two gave it rave reviews. One, later withdrawn, was by a libertarian who didn't like libertarianism criticized.
The fourth gave it a mixed review, praising the book itself but wishing I did not have such a strong point of view.
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Review by: Mark Sellers on April 22, 2014 : star star
This book did have a great deal of information to correct misinformation that is spouted as true. The only trouble I had with the book was the obvious slant of the authors personal beliefs. I'm sure he could have added numerous other examples.
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Here are the two positive reviews from Smashwords at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/419159.
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Review by: JohnMartine on April 21, 2014 : star star star star star
I'm an avid reader of the likes of Zinn, Chomsky, and Loewen. This book fits well with their. It is a devastating critique of the presidency and its failures, contrary to the sunshine patriotism view one gets (mis)taught. It likely will appeal to you if you are much like me, cynical about power and presidents but not sure what information to believe or where to find it.
In his intro he states that politics and history are too important to be left to professionals. Then he lays out his case for judging presidents on humanitarian standards. Not their party, not left or right, and he goes into a thorough debunking of nonsense claims about liberal media or universities.
It is a revelation that Nixon and Jackson both ordered genocide, and Reagan worked with generals committing genocide in Central America. One president after another comes up lacking. Clinton and FDR are taken apart for ignoring genocide. LBJ, Nixon, and GW Bush all ordered torture, and Obama ordered assassinations.
But some presidents come off very well. Jimmy Carter was one of our greatest presidents and ex presidents. Grant as well.
Carroll is neither liberal nor conservative. He comes across as a devout compassionate Catholic. His favorite term is ideologically blind, meaning someone so dedicated to an abstract principle he will even let others die to prove it. Libertarians and hardline leftists will both hate him because he tears their worldviews to shreds. But, as he shows, they deserve it, because they are very often blind to the harm they do.
A search for him online shows he's American Indian, very well respected by most but deeply hated by racists and religious exploiters. More can be found at his website http://alcarroll.com and his human rights organization of Natives, www.newagefraud.org. I join them in saying he has my respect, and I expcet this book will be much used as a resource by anyone wanting an antidote to all the hazy president worshipping bios.
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Review by: SamBear on April 23, 2014 : star star star star star
Dr. Carroll is well known in Indian Country. He has fought for many years to protect our sacred ways from the wasichu colonial spiritual invaders at his site newagefraud.org. He also has a very good book on our Native vets. I have read this also and his words honoring our warriors are good.
I am glad he represents an Indian point of view on American presidents. Yes he is a strong Catholic also, but I have known both good and bad Christians. He is a Christian offering a helping hand, not a closed fist or closed mind.
Obviously I'm going to say most about what he writes about how presidents have treated Indians. Jackson is the third worst president because of the Trail of Tears. Most of the Five Tribes say he was the worst. But I understand why Carroll lists Reagan as even worse. Reagan killed so many more of our Indians cousins, Mayans of Guatemala. Nixon is the worst president he says, and most Vietnam vets will tell you the same. Both Nixon and Reagan should not be honored by anyone. They should have faced a firing squad like Eichmann.
A lot of my Dakota relatives will disagree about Carroll saying Lincoln was our greatest president. We remember the Dakota 38, the worst mass hanging in America's history. But I never knew that Lincoln saved 270 of my relations from being hung. I also never knew Lincoln saved so many Indians in California.
The words you have written are very good Dr. Carroll. I hope many heed them.
More links
Links related to my writings or work as a professor and human rights activist.
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1462643
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Al/Carroll
https://www.blogger.com/profile/13672833987617527859
http://www.amazon.com/review/R29ZE99GF7FVVC
http://www.free-ebooks.net/profile/499030/al-carroll
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AlCarroll
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/999723.Al_Carroll
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/medicine-bags-and-dog-tags-al-carroll/1018187857?ean=9780803216297
http://alcarroll.com/
http://nvcc.academia.edu/alcarroll
http://bookblogs.ning.com/profile/AlCarroll
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Medicine-Bags-and-Dog-Tags%2C673393.aspx
http://www.davidyeagley.org/
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/details.php?ebook=9856
http://presidentsbodycounts.blogspot.com/
http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2009/08/al-carroll-on-tarantinos-scalping.htm
http://superchangeyourlife.com/interviews/interviews-al-carroll
https://www.facebook.com/alcarlcarroll
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alton-carroll/13/846/52
https://plus.google.com/111649492436377790503
http://www.squidoo.com/presidents-body-counts
http://www.lookuppage.com/users/altoncarroll
http://www.reddit.com/user/PresidentsBodyCounts
http://alcarrollblog.tumblr.com/
http://presidentsbodycounts.weebly.com/
http://davidyeagley.blogspot.com/
http://about.me/alcarlcarroll
https://alcarroll.contently.com/
http://newsle.com/alcarroll
http://presidentsbodycounts.quora.com/
http://www.articlesbase.com/journalism-articles/how-presidents-and-the-public-have-ignored-right-wing-terrorism-6981936.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586568
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/24/1294456/-How-Presidents-and-the-Public-Have-Ignored-Right-Wing-Terrorism
http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=59085&tmpl=transcript
http://www.spiritsforsale.com/Webbplats_2/Participants.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/22/1293958/-Seven-Genocides-That-Presidents-Refused-to-Stop
https://www.academia.edu/6823924/Seven_Genocides_That_Presidents_Refused_to_Stop
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/06/18439218.php?show_comments=1
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/23/18510505.php
http://www.wattpad.com/user/DrAlCarroll
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/17/18467518.php
http://alcarroll.flavors.me/
http://www.wattpad.com/46467024-seven-genocides-that-presidents-refused-to-stop?utm_source=email-uploaded_story&ref_id=23864930
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/14/18754143.php
https://www.cla.purdue.edu/history/documents/newsletters/newsldept2008.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/AlCarroll
http://www.amazon.com/Al-Carroll/e/B00IZ4FY1S/ref%3Dntt_athr_dp_pel_1
http://ebooks.allbookstores.com/kindle/book/B00IYX12PW/Presidents-Body-Counts-Twelve-Worst.html
http://alcarroll.com/Social+Stream
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/419159
http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Presidents-Body-Counts-The-Twelve-Worst-and-Four-Best-American-Presidents
http://www.wattpad.com/42674179-presidents%27-body-counts-the-twelve-worst-and-four
http://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Body-Counts-American-Because-ebook/dp/B00IYX12PW
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/AlCaroll
http://www.newagefraud.org/
http://www.amazon.com/Al-Carroll/e/B00IZ4FY1S
http://www.ranker.com/list/the-twelve-worst-us-presidents-based-on-body-counts/dralcarroll
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Information and links
I had not even been back to this blog in many years, its purpose having been over and done and successful long ago. I intend to let this blog lapse and may even take it down entirely.
But it continues to rank very highly in links about both me and its original subject. So let me direct the viewer to better sources about myself and my work.
https://nvcc.academia.edu/alcarroll
https://www.academia.edu/6515361/Presidents_Body_Counts
_The_Twelve_Worst_and_Four_Best_American_Presidents_Based_on
_How_Many_Lived_or_Died_Because_of_Their_Actions
www.alcarroll.com
www.alcarroll.org
www.alcarroll.net
www.alcarroll.info
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AlCarroll
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/999723.Al_Carroll
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alton-carroll/13/846/52
http://presidentsbodycounts.blogspot.com/
https://plus.google.com/111649492436377790503/posts
https://www.facebook.com/PresidentsBodyCounts
http://alcarroll.brandyourself.com/
http://www.scribd.com/AlCarroll
http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Presidents-Body-Counts-The-Twelve-Worst-and-Four-Best-American-Presidents
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/details.php?ebook=9856
http://www.wattpad.com/42674179-presidents'-body-counts-the-twelve-worst-and-four Excerpt
http://www.general-ebooks.com/book/59332917-presidents-body-counts-the-twelve-worst-and-four-best-american-presidents-based-on-how-many-lived-or-died-because-of-their-actions
Presidents' Body Counts: The Twelve Worst and Four Best American Presidents Based on How Many Lived or Died Because of Their Actions
Presidents' Body Counts:
The Twelve Worst and Four Best American Presidents
Based on How Many Lived or Died Because of Their Actions
by Al Carroll
Available for free at https://www.academia.edu/6515361/Presidents_Body_Counts_The_Twelve_Worst_and_Four_Best_American_Presidents_Based_on_How_Many_Lived_or_Died_Because_of_Their_Actions
Speak No Evil About Presidents. So say most textbooks, journalists, commentators, and even some historians. Not in this book.
An eye opening look at all the evil done by presidents, mass murder, incompetence, and terrorism, and the noblest presidents also.
How many of these do you know?
-Two presidents ordered genocide, and another collaborated with genocide.
-Four presidents ordered chemical warfare. One ordered atomic warfare.
-Two presidents pardoned mass murderers, one a war criminal who murdered women and children, the other a terrorist who blew up a plane.
-At least four presidents ignored genocide. In one case he could have saved up to over a million lives.
-Two other presidents, besides Bush, ordered the mass torture of prisoners.
-Two living presidents may face war crimes trials.
-One president ran for office as the candidate for terrorists.
-Two presidents were members of the KKK, one of them initiated in the White House.
-One president was so incompetent, the White House was burned down by the enemy.
-One president holds the record for the most invasions of Latin America. Two other presidents are the only ones in the last 120 years to not try to overthrow governments in Latin America.
-Four presidents strongly despised by many were actually our greatest presidents.
-America's greatest president may have saved over a million lives.
-America's greatest ex-president saved even more lives than that. He also helped bring democracy to 25 nations.
-America's second greatest president headed off genocide, and prevented two wars.
-For almost every evil president, there were far better men who might have won the election.
-For almost every good president, there were also far worse men (and women) who could have won.
The most insightful and damning expose of the presidency you will ever see. By a historian and professor, lively and not pulling any punches.