For all those who consider themselves to be staunch defenders of Christopher Columbus, you will want this book.

Further this book should be in every library, and school!!!!

Who is right and who is wrong in the never-ending debate over the legacy of Christopher Columbus?

Should we be celebrating Columbus Day or "Indigenous People's Day"?

The Ayn Rand Bookstore has issued an important and timely new book:
Enemies of Christopher Columbus by Thomas Bowden

Was Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain? Was he a brave explorer whose discovery of the New World helped civilize a savage wilderness—or was he a poor lost sailor who stumbled onto occupied territory and helped destroy an Indian paradise?

The Enemies of Christopher Columbus, written in a brisk, question-and-answer format, provides lucid responses to the "politically correct" primitivists who condemn Columbus for having brought civilization to the Western hemisphere.

This new book shows that, contrary to the myths spread by multiculturalism, American Indians did not live in an earthly paradise before Columbus arrived—they were poor, ignorant, scared, superstitious, and cruel. This was not due to any racial or ethnic inferiority but to a lack of civilization.

The spread of Western values not only brought enormous new opportunities to the Indians but led eventually to the birth of the United States of America, the greatest nation in world history, where people of every race and ethnicity can live together in peace and prosperity.

This volume also includes excerpts from notable writers such as Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Thomas Jefferson, whose views (unvarnished by "political correctness") on Columbus and on the Indians may startle the modern reader.(Hardcover; 133 pages)
 

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Multiculturalist Mob Madness, October 15, 2003
Reviewer: Edward Cline  from Yorktown, VA United States

Several previous "reviewers" of Mr. Bowden's book either didn't read it, or are instead responding to Mr. Bowden's appearance on CSPAN at George Mason University.

If those "reviewers" had bothered to read the book, they would have seen that the author answers and rebuts many of their "facts" in their foaming, multiculturalist tirades, in addition to acknowledging that Columbus had his faults and that he made some errors.

Case in point; he acknowledges that the Incans and Mayans had advanced civilizations -- certainly more technologically advanced than any North American Indian culture, for which the term "technology" can hardly be applied -- but that they were chiefly brutal, stagnant cultures that could not successfully oppose the Spanish invasion.

And, yes, even for all its faults, wars, persecutions, and so on, Europe's 15th century civilization was more advanced and certainly superior to anything that existed in North or South America before and after the discovery of the Americas.

Those critics chose to rant against the very points that Mr. Bowden makes in his book, as though he does not discuss them at all, suggesting that these individuals are not only dishonest, but the typical product of a multiculturalist, value-destroying, brain-washing education, which has turned them into frothing nilhilists.