If you are as sick of the entire mainstream media calling Americans Islamophobes as I am, then a good antidote is a quick read of Bookwormroom's simple summary of what real American's have learned in the last nine years and the Left blindly ignores.
Joyce Appleby: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
Niall Ferguson: The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
Jonathan Israel: The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
Jerry Z. Muller: The Mind and the Market : Capitalism in Modern European Thought