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Patriot's History of the Modern World, Vol.II...Larry Schweikart
publishersweekly ^
| 12/05/2013
| Larry Schweikart
Posted on 12/04/2013 9:19:37 AM PST by virgil283
"Rock-ribbed Americanism confronts communism abroad and liberalism at home in this conservatives’ chronicle of post-war history. Schweikart and Dougherty ... continue their account of how an “American exceptionalism” based on Christianity, private property, common law, and free markets shaped the world. "....
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TOPICS: Education; History; Reference
KEYWORDS: larryschweikart; patriotshistory
...."Their narrative is equal parts glory and gloom, as America leads the capitalist democracies to victory over the communist bloc in the Cold War only to be undermined by a degenerate welfare-state socialism pushed by domestic progressives advocating “the soft slavery of entitlements and the silver shackles of government support.” ......
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posted on
12/04/2013 9:19:37 AM PST
by
virgil283
To: virgil283
One of our own(FreeP “LS”) makes GREAT!
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posted on
12/04/2013 9:20:31 AM PST
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: virgil283; LS
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posted on
12/04/2013 9:30:50 AM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: virgil283
Just ordered my copy. Nice going, Larry.
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posted on
12/04/2013 9:44:56 AM PST
by
JoeFromSidney
( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
To: virgil283; LS
To: JoeFromSidney
Thanks Joe. I think this one is really, really great, on a par with Patriot’s History of the US. Volume 1 was necessarily dark-—hard to be lighthearted about two world wars and the depression. But this goes from cars to fashion to music.
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posted on
12/04/2013 1:30:08 PM PST
by
LS
('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
To: virgil283
Not a terrible review from the biased PW. I think the book is darned entertaining. We include the car culture, rock music, the rise and mythology of Gandhi, and I think the BEST chapter on the Reagan era you’ll ever find.
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posted on
12/04/2013 1:31:04 PM PST
by
LS
('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
To: lepton
Thanks. It is a very, very good book.
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posted on
12/04/2013 1:32:17 PM PST
by
LS
('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
To: LS
Well, you were in a position to observe the music.
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posted on
12/04/2013 1:38:49 PM PST
by
JoeFromSidney
( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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