A Patriot's History of the United States . . . Finally, On Sale Today!

Penguin/Sentinel and Amazon.com ^ | 12/29/04 | LS

[LS]

This is it, Freepers! A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus' Great Discovery to the War on Terror goes on sale today!

Freepers, if you love history, and, more important, if you think that there has been a void in the telling of America's REAL history, this book is for you.

Thanks to you several Freepers who have read and commented on parts of this book. It is already the winner of February's Lysander Spooner Award for literature that advances the cause of liberty, and we are in talks with Fox and other outlets for a media blitz to take place during the official "roll out" in the second week of January. Meanwhile, if you are returning Christmas gifts and didn't get that "stocking stuffer," by all means, this is it!

I'll be happy to autograph copies if any Freeper wants to send me their copy, tell me to whom they want it inscribed or what they want it to say, and provide a postage-paid return envelope!

Thanks.

[LS]

By all means.

[mhking]

and he said, I get up, brush my teeth, and sit down and write. There is no magical thing about it.

I've got to agree; that sounds like some of the best advice I can think of...then again, my wife (She Who Must Be Obeyed) insists that I'm the monarch of procrastination, too...

[LS]

Sounds reasonable.

[jonestown]

Congratulations on the Spooner Award..
I just ran across this thread on a former Spooner winner..

Why Care What The Constitution Says?
Address:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115106/posts?page=47

Any comments?

And do you have any links to longer reviews of your new book?

[Future Snake Eater]

Added to my wish list, sir! Looking forward to reading it!

[Future Snake Eater]

I think he misses the real significance of the 1950s; and, of course, stops sooner than we do.

Do you find it difficult to detach yourself from such current history as the War on Terror for analytical purposes?

[Bahbah]

I certainly do and I will.

[suijuris]

Thanks,
I may have to go to Amazon, but sometimes I'll pay alittle extra to have it now. From the description it sounds like the type of book I've been looking for. I've got two teenagers being fed the revisionist pablum from their teachers at school. I try to counteract with my limited knowledge and some old (prior to 1930) history book. Your book sounds very interesting and I believe will help me.

May take you u p on the autograph.
Thanks,
Bob E.

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping
bttt

[maica]

Yet another "thanks for the ping"!, Howlin

I was just sitting down to try to find this very book, when I just had to take one more peek at FR for new pings.
Et voila! you gave me the answer.

Who says FR is not the most valuable site on the internet!!!

[kitkat]

BUMP

[SuziQ]

Cool! I'll have to get a copy to balance Alan Brinkley's Amer. History book that we used for my homeschooled daughter. I only used it because we had it left from our older sons' high school years. She even noticed the liberal bias in Brinkley's book, though to his credit, he did have a page in each chapter devoted to 'alternate views', though it certainly didn't balance the bias in the rest of it!

[maica]

Congratulations, and thanks for writing this needed book. Two copies ordered for curious, sincere nephews who get their 'news' from NPR.

[LS]

I disagree with his take on "the consent of the governed." It undermines his whole thesis, because it was precisely that "consent" that the Revolutionaries thought they were not given---nor even asked for. The entire premise of the Constitution is based on a framework that the laws are derived only by the "consent of the governed." Now, of course NO ONE thought that meant "all the governed," or even (usually) a majority of the governed, but if you go to the origins of the Constitution, namely the drafts of the colonial charters, many of the governors, although they ruled at the appointment of the king, nevertheless were viewed as PURELY serving at the consent of the governed. The Plymouth covenant says so pretty explicitly, since most of these were COMPANIES and the "voters" were really "stockholders."

It is important to realize that the foundations for "consent" at all originated in medieval times as a result of a feudal arrangement between king and vassal, and this arrangement rested almost entirely on the bequeathing of LAND and a TITLE, for which the knights promised service. They did not have a vote, but their first right wa to property, and since then, property has been the foundational right of all the others---even some of the "Natural Rights" theorists saw the human person as "one's own property."

I do agree that the Constitution has become whatever a circuit court in CA wants it to be, and that needs to be reversed.

[LS]

Not really. I am of the view that while no historian can escape biases, one should neither pretend they do not exist (the "empiricists") or seek to counterbalance them with antithetical concepts (the New Left).

If you look at my previous book, "The Entrepreneurial Adventure," published in 2000, I went through 1996 or 1997 and (so far) my assessment of what was happening at the time I wrote it does not appear to be too far off.

[LS]

It's funny that in many of the endnotes, especially on Jackson, the Roaring 20s and Great Depression, Reagan, and Clinton, we cite many sentences from more than a dozen current textbooks precisely to illustrate bias. Often, they say almost the same thing (as with Reagan).

[MattinNJ]

Thank you for writing this. I have a 3 yr. old boy that I fret about being spoon fed revisionist garbage. I'll enjoy it and then wait to pass it down to him.

[McGavin999]

Great, more reading, just what I need ;o)

Seriously, this looks like it's going to be well worth reading.

[kitkat]

I just ordered your book from Amazon. I want this book no matter what, but I have a question for you. I have a 13-year-old grandson who is currently a prisoner of public education. Will your book be right for his age group?

And, importantly, thanks for writing this much-needed book.

[kitkat]

Thanks for the ping, Howlin.