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Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

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Plan Like a Millionaire is part of a riveting three-part series, and it's all about elevating your game and setting goals like a seven-figure earner. She was a Nazi collaborator who treated her staff with contempt, was unethical in her business dealings, and had a string of affairs with fellow fascist sympathizers. Otto’s writing style is accessible and as another reviewer has said, this and Fake History ought to be required reading in school. Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history.

Another way of putting it is that "the person who shouts the loudest gets all the acclaim," which is mentioned by way of explaining why Thomas Edison is widely regarded as the inventor of the light bulb, when it's not really that simple. this is just plain wrong - the Norwegian team were dogsledding, meaning that they were doing much less physical work than the British team, who were manhauling (pulling the sledges themselves). Each chapter deals with a different hero, or group of heroes, and aims to debunk the myths surrounding them.In truth you cannot be objective and we should pretend that this work is anything other than subjective. The Batista regime] was one of the most egregious and terrible regimes even by the standards of its day, corrupt, evil, in bed with American gangsters, like a really nasty regime.

As ‘Fake Heroes’ demonstrates overcoming bias, not accepting the conventional narrative and striving to discover what really happened is the job of a proper historian. Enjoyable and easy-to-follow bit of infotainment that serves as a reminder of the perils of idealising people. My career as a voice actor had been over for months and me and my little girl Scarlet were living back at my mum’s place.It does not in any way set out to totally discredit their memories, but instead fill in the real human behind the myths. This is the type of book I would normally think is a healthy counterpoint to our celebrity-obsessed, image-oriented culture, but as mentioned, the writing could have done with some tightening up from an editor.

Having exposed some of the greatest lies ever told in Fake History, journalist Otto English turns his attention to some of history's biggest (and most beloved) figures. Whether it’s virtuous leaders in just wars, martyrs sacrificing all for a cause, or innovators changing the world for the better, down the centuries supposedly great men and women have risen to become household names, martyrs, demigods, saints and heroes.

Che Guevara, whose beret clad image adorned a million student bedsits in the 70s, became the monster he was trying to slay, English says. So we can dispense with the notion of the romantic revolutionary hero who loved the working classes quite readily, then. Having exposed some of the greatest lies ever told in Fake History, journalist Otto English turns his attention to some of history's biggest (and most beloved) figures.

If anything the failing here was becoming too attached to the dogs, unlike the Norwegian team who saw them as more of a means to an end. Instead, some of the most interesting sections of “Fake Heroes” are where Otto English shifts from iconoclasm against his ten chosen historical figures and focuses on the nature of mythologising and how – and why – society manufactures its heroes.An alternative history of the world which takes ten great lies and shows how our present continues to be manipulated by the fabrications of the past. In the chapter on Henry V Otto confronts the beast he is tackling in a section about 19th century politics in Australia. Had his face not been made famous by the promulgation of his image across the world, he might have been just another guerilla allied with Castro whose name was only known by far-left devotees. In the popular imagination, we think of him as being almost a demigod, this sort of semi-divine figure, who had great dreams and hopes for his country, and he wanted to deliver them.

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