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This book is going to give you the biggest revelation you have ever had this lifetime - or any lifetime - on Planet Earth. The secret of what has happened, why, how, who... and what is going to happen next. A lot of data that you have already seen or know about will be examined in a different light. Seemingly unrelated phenomena will be aligned and correlated to give you a new understanding of the reality you are surrounded by. There is a reason that there are so many lies about what is going on, what has happened in history, NASA programs, government agendas against the people, and who and where you are. This book will take you down a path you have never travelled, and then set you on a new one that you will travel for the rest of your existence. The truth is so wild... it seems impossible. This goes against everything you know and think about Earth. And that is how it has been hidden. Nobody believes it. Until you look at it properly. The truth about you and Earth is something "they" don't want you to ever know, and it is more powerful than you can imagine, because if you know the truth, it CAN set you free!

A New York Times bestseller! “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark.