The first is A Patriot's History of the United States by Schweikart and Allen. The book is intended as an alternative to the neo-Marxist books that dominate this field and dominate history teaching in academia: Charles Beard, Howard Zinn and Arthur Schlesinger. The authors do a masterful job. Everywhere that the New Left in the 1970s has perverted American history with a fictional Marxist version, the authors of A Patriot's History do a superb job of presenting the arguments and evidence on this. For example, how many people were in the America's when Columbus arrived. A gigantic number, 100 million people, is used to show how White people destroyed a great civilization. A smaller number, 4 million, is used to show that these natives spent a lot of time killing each other.
The authors go a little bonkers on the subject of America's founding fathers creating a Christian Constitution. They didn't. Most of the founders were Masons, strong and important Masons. The Masonic Order was strongly against organized religion. We have a Masonic Constitution, if anything.
The value of the book is to open up hundreds of ideas and subjects to new thought for the reader and to stimulate excitement in studying our history.
Hadler uses the same criterion for medicine that I use for life: Karl Popper. Popper showed that science progresses by testing falsifiable hypothesis. All science is the accumulation of refutable hypotheses that, so far, haven't been refuted by testing.
When applied to medicine and medical procedures, almost nothing works better than doing nothing. Aspirin, Ibuprofen, some antibiotics work so does tamoxafin for estrogen positive breast cancer. Hip replacement also works. Most of the rest doesn't. The same applies to alternative medicine.
Thus the Alpha Heresy: Unless you've come to the same conclusion yourself, you won't like the book... or it is irrelevant to you.