Also: Hey, free book. Why not share it?
No book is free, because all books cost time. Why is this one worth mine? Its hectoring tone and its obsessing over the minutiae of just how interested the Congress of the late 18th century was or was not in remedying a shortage of bibles do not give me any reason to do more than glance at the first chapter. So, someone I don't care about is being wrong somewhere and someone else I don't care about has written a book to correct them. LW relevance?
This should be of interest to a few members of this forum: Chris Rodda has made her book, Liars for Jesus, available for free online (pdf). The book is a debunking of modern revisionist histories written by authors like David Barton and Gary DeMar. Topics range from the obvious (no, Jefferson was not an evangelical Christian) to the less obvious (no, the Northwest Ordinance was not widely used to encourage religious teaching in public schools). It's a useful resource for those who, like me, are not well-educated in history. It also works as a case study of confirmation bias: chapter after chapter shows that the evidence for many of the revisionist claims is based on passages taken out of both literary and historical context, thus ignoring relevant counterevidence.