The Politically Incorrect Guide

The Politically Incorrect Guide is a book series by Regnery Publishing presenting politically incorrect beliefs on various topics. Each book is written by a different author and generally presents a conservative or libertarian viewpoint on the subject at hand. The series was the brainchild of Jeffrey Rubin, then editor of the Conservative Book Club, Regnery's sister company within Washington, DC-based Eagle Publishing.

Content

Each Politically Incorrect Guide contains the following:

• Cover teasers that summarize ideas presented in the book.
• Contents which lists all the questions the Guide will be answering, contained within the appropriate chapter.
• "Guess What" sections, which oppose common liberal viewpoints.
• "PC Myth" which discusses widely believed ideas that the authors see as completely false and what they believe to be the truth.
• Boxed texts
  • "A Book You're Not Supposed to Read", depicted with a pig at the top of each box, lists books that challenge politically correct opinions about topics covered in the Guide.
  • "Pig" which lists quotes from notable authors supporting the opinions given. A picture of a microphone is featured at the top of each box.

Some books have variations on this theme, such as:

• "Muhammad versus Jesus" quotes in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, which aim to suggest Muhammad preached violence and Jesus nonviolence.
• "What They Don't Want You to Learn From..." in The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature.
• "A Book Atheists Want to Burn" instead of "A Book You're Not Supposed to Read" in The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Bible.

Reader-selected expansion

One feature of The Politically Incorrect Guide series is the ability for readers to vote (through Regnery's associate Human Events) on topics they would like to see covered in future books. The top three selected topics in a 2006 readers' poll were: the United States Constitution, The Bible, and Capitalism. Books in the series for all three topics have since been published.

Series

• The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods (December 2004) ISBN 0895260476
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades) by Robert Spencer (August 2005) ISBN 0895260131
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science by Tom Bethell (November 2005) ISBN 089526031X
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism by Carrie L. Lukas (May 2006) ISBN 1596980036
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design by Jonathan Wells (August 2006) ISBN 1596980516
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kantor (November 2006) ISBN 1596980117
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again) by Clint Johnson (January 2007) ISBN 1596985003
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism by Christopher C. Horner (February 2007) ISBN 1596985011
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy (April 2007) ISBN 1596985046
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin R.C. Gutzman (June 2007) ISBN 1596985054
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting by Frank Miniter (September 2007) ISBN 1596985216
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible by Robert J. Hutchinson (October 2007) ISBN 1596985208
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East by Martin Sieff (January 2008) ISBN 1596980516
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization by Anthony Esolen (June 2008) ISBN 1596980591
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War by Harold William Crocker III (October 2008) ISBN 1596985496
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal by Robert P. Murphy (April 2009) ISBN 1596980966
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers by Brion McClanahan (June 2009) ISBN 1596980923
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties by Jonathan Leaf (August 2009) ISBN 1596985720
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War by Phillip Jennings (February 2010) ISBN 1596985674

Criticisms

A pro-evolution website, The Panda's Thumb, reviewed The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design providing analysis on nine of the 17 chapters and called it "not only politically incorrect but incorrect in most other ways as well: scientifically, logically, historically, legally, academically, and morally." Chris Mooney has criticized The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, calling it the "the “Incorrect Guide to Science". Some historians also took issue with The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War criticizing its "cherry-picked research and one-sided judgments of figures" and accusing it of advocating Neo-Confederate ideas. Politically Incorrect Guide authors Kevin Gutzman, Robert Murphy, and Clint Johnson have all appeared on The Political Cesspool, a Neo-Confederate radio show.

Bear in mind, however, that these criticisms could be subjective...a result from the critic's own values and beliefs. For example, the Panda's thumb advocates evolution, so naturally, it would indeed criticize the views of those who disagreed with it.

The usage of the term politically incorrect is seen by some as not meaningful in any significant way. "Political correctness is one of the brilliant tools that the American Right developed in the mid-1980s as part of its demolition of American liberalism", according to Will Hutton of the Observer in the United Kingdom.

Translations

Three of the books have been translated into Spanish:

• Guía Políticamente Incorrecta del Islam (y de las Cruzadas) ISBN 8496836075 - translation of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)
• Guía Políticamente Incorrecta de la Ciencia ISBN 8493466999 - translation of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science
• Guía Políticamente Incorrecta del Calentamiento Global (y del Ecologismo) ISBN 8496836174 - translation of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism

External links

• Official Website
• Regnery Publishing page