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FReeper's Book Rockets Up Amazon After Ingraham Show!
Amazon.com ^ | Feb 21. 2005 | Larry Schweikart

Posted on 02/21/2005 1:50:24 PM PST by Travis McGee

Larry Schweikart, AKA freeper "LS," was on the Laura Ingraham show this morning, discussing his book "A Patriot's History of the United States." In the hours since the show, Patriot's History has rocketed on Amazon from a ranking in the middle hundreds, to number 36! This may be the best selling book by any freeper, ever! Congratulations Larry!

Next stop, Rush Limbaugh's March newsletter, and and the top ten!


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Free Republic; Government; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: booksales; congrats; ingraham; larryschweikart; lauraingraham; patriotshistory; talkradio
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To: Travis McGee

I picked up a copy at Barnes & Noble last week - didn't even realize that the author was a Freeper, but I'm not surprised.

It's a really outstanding book, I highly recommend it. It's a good way to get a solid understanding of all those details of American history that you feel like you should know but either regurgitated on a test and promptly forgot, or were never taught.


41 posted on 02/21/2005 2:46:25 PM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Travis McGee
The Antidote to the America Haters, February 21, 2005
Reviewer: Matthew Bracken (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
I guess I'm not surprised that the usual "Hate America First" crowd of clapped-out bitter Marxists have jumped on A Patriot's History and reviewed it from Michael Moore's and Ward Churchill's perspective. That's the only reason why it doesn't have a five star review across the board: bitter leftists, snarling and snapping even as they are being carried out in history's dustbin.

A Patriot's History is not a light read, but I suggest that parents purchase it for their college-bound high school students. They need to be armed with the truth when they arrive at the universities, so that they can effectively counter the radical leftist arguments of the America-hating Zinns, Churchills and Jensons who infest academia.

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Got some grandkids that need to read this...............

42 posted on 02/21/2005 2:48:22 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: All
Another book with some Truth:

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Unholy Alliance
by David Horowitz
Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 089526076X
Hardcover - 256 pages (September 2004)


In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the “Great Satan” with America’s radical Islamic enemies. This Left, which once made common cause with Communists, has now joined forces with radical Islam in attacking America’s defenses at home and its policies abroad. From their positions of influence in the university and media culture, leftists have defined America as the “root cause” of the attacks against it. In a remarkable exploration of the “Mind of the Left,” Horowitz traces the evolution of American radicalism from its Communist past to its “anti-war” present. He then shows how this Left was able to turn the Democratic Party presidential campaign around and reshape its views on the War on Terror.

Horowitz’s Unholy Alliance, writes John Haynes, the noted historian of American Communism, “is an insightful, brilliant examination of the mental world of the radical left. Horowitz shows how today’s radicals, unwilling to reflect on the internal flaws that destroyed Marxism-Leninism from within, have embraced an all-consuming nihilism in its place. This has led them to a hatred of American institutions and a solidarity with Islamic terrorists that makes the radical left more properly regarded as dangerous than loony.”

Unholy Alliance is an eye-opening book that should unsettle conventional assumptions and reveals why intellectuals and political leaders who applaud Michael Moore are no laughing matter. As Harvey Klehr, author of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, writes, “The world Communist movement may be moribund, but its habits of mind and ideological fantasies have not disappeared. This is a fascinating and depressing account.”

Price: $19.01Click here to order:


43 posted on 02/21/2005 2:50:08 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Travis McGee
Unknown FReeper

Never underestimate the power of the FReeper!
44 posted on 02/21/2005 2:52:04 PM PST by TheForceOfOne (Social Security – I thought pyramid schemes were illegal!)
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To: Travis McGee

BUMP


45 posted on 02/21/2005 2:53:00 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: Travis McGee

LS is one of my favorite Freepers. I'm glad to see him get needed recognition for an important point-of-view.

One of the reasons I restrain myself is because I don't want to be the reason some discredit the courageous ones who step out of anonymity (where I live, and I have no plans to move) and into the hot spotlight of Real Life Fame and/or Notoriety.


46 posted on 02/21/2005 2:54:43 PM PST by L.N. Smithee (Thanks for nothing, you dumb pucks. The NHL is now the NHWC [No Hockey? Who Cares?])
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To: Tanniker Smith

i think a Free Republic conservative book club would be a terrific idea---

I love discussing the books I read with someone, but I can't seem to find anyone that likes the same ones I do---

Most of my friends, and family are into ---fiction.

I cannot wait to get ahold of this book---I love history!!!

Tanniker---if you start a thread, they will come....


47 posted on 02/21/2005 2:55:41 PM PST by Txsleuth (Call be anything...just don't call me a fringe poster)
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To: LS

Congratulations on your book---

As I said in an earlier post---I can't wait to get it and read it--

Mayber Tanniker can start a FR Book Club, and your book will be one of the first to be discussed...although at 944 pages, it may take a few days...


48 posted on 02/21/2005 2:59:11 PM PST by Txsleuth (Call be anything...just don't call me a fringe poster)
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To: Txsleuth

ping


49 posted on 02/21/2005 3:01:01 PM PST by Rocky Mountain Mama (four more years of tax cuts and dead terrorists)
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To: Travis McGee

Excellent news. Congratulations LS.


50 posted on 02/21/2005 3:01:11 PM PST by blam
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To: SteveH
On the other hand, as conservatives, we nevertheless destroy the myth that FDR "knew" about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance.

The new issue of Popular Mechanics does the same with 9/11 foreknowledge myths. Suck on that, Alex Jones.

51 posted on 02/21/2005 3:06:27 PM PST by L.N. Smithee (Thanks for nothing, you dumb pucks. The NHL is now the NHWC [No Hockey? Who Cares?])
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To: So Cal Rocket

Jerry Corsi! How could I forget!

Okay, how about by freepers who are open about being freepers, and not quazi-stealth freepers?


52 posted on 02/21/2005 3:17:57 PM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Travis McGee

Just ordered it on Amazon. I'd love to join a Freepers Conservative Book Club!


53 posted on 02/21/2005 3:25:11 PM PST by CTGOPPER (In a red town, in a blue county, in blue state of CT)
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To: Travis McGee
Is Ls also working for GB?

Does LS also have a White House press pass?

Did LS receive secret communications from Karl Rove?

Is LS really Karl Rove in disguise?

54 posted on 02/21/2005 3:30:00 PM PST by sausageseller (Look out for the jackbooted spelling police. There! Everywhere!(revised cause the "man" accosted me!)
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To: Travis McGee
PING!

How's your work coming?

55 posted on 02/21/2005 3:40:52 PM PST by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: Gumption
Yes, I'm Brian Lombard, author of Bradypalooza, and please, buy multiple copies of my masterpiece.
56 posted on 02/21/2005 4:00:17 PM PST by YourAdHere (My Brady Bunch book is now available!)
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To: YourAdHere
I'm speechless.
57 posted on 02/21/2005 4:03:28 PM PST by Gumption
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To: Travis McGee
as conservatives, we nevertheless destroy the myth that FDR "knew" about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance

I'm sure this book is excellent, but I have to wonder if the authors aren't overreaching just a bit here in order to seem "fair and balanced."

From what I've read, it's no "myth" that FDR "knew" that an attack by the Japanese was imminent.

On the contrary, I believe it's well established that FDR had intelligence that the Japanese were about to attack our naval forces in one of three places: Midway Island, the Philippines, or Pearl Harbor.

FDR just didn't know WHICH one of those naval bases would be attacked.

And it's well accepted that FDR was eager for America to enter the war, and was having difficulty convincing a recalcitrant, isolationist public -- until Pearl Harbor. It's also undisputed that FDR directed the US Navy to provoke the Japanese in several instances, pre-Pearl Harbor.

It doesn't seem to me too much of a stretch to put those two facts together, and to see at least a motivation for FDR to not act on intelligence that an attack, somewhere, was imminent.

58 posted on 02/21/2005 4:04:51 PM PST by shhrubbery!
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To: TheForceOfOne

Now, now Anakin...Halloween isn't until next week.


59 posted on 02/21/2005 4:07:05 PM PST by Fledermaus (I Googled "Democrat+Sane" and got no hits.)
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To: Travis McGee; LS
As I said earlier today on the thread about the LI interview...nobody is more deserving. He deserves every bit of this and more...and he has a GREAT project in the wings, September Day, about 9-11 that will be every bit as much a success I am sure.

Way to go Larry!

60 posted on 02/21/2005 4:11:06 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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