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About the Author
Larry Schweikart is a history professor at the University of Dayton. Michael Allen is a professor of history and American studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
Product Description: For at least thirty years, high school and college students have been taught to be embarrassed by American history. Required readings have become skewed toward a relentless focus on our country’s darkest moments, from slavery to McCarthyism. As a result, many history books devote more space to Harriet Tubman than to Abraham Lincoln; more to My Lai than to the American Revolution; more to the internment of Japanese Americans than to the liberation of Europe in World War II.
Now, finally, there is an antidote to this biased approach to our history. Two veteran history professors have written a sweeping, well-researched book that puts the spotlight back on America’s role as a beacon of liberty to the rest of the world.
Schweikart and Allen are careful to tell their story straight, from Columbus’s voyage to the capture of Saddam Hussein. They do not ignore America’s mistakes through the years, but they put them back in their proper perspective. And they conclude that America’s place as a world leader derived largely from the virtues of our own leaders— the men and women who cleared the wilderness, abolished slavery, and rid the world of fascism and communism.
The authors write in a clear and enjoyable style that makes history a pleasure, not just for students but also for adults who want to learn what their teachers skipped over.
Congrats!
BTW, are you the same "Larry Schweikart" who wrote some pieces about Trident for the US Naval Institute Proceedings back in the 1980s?
Way to go, Larry!
Wow. Congrats! That's fabulous.
I actually heard you today but didn't realize who it was (I listen in fragments.)
I've been thinking of starting a thread on the subject, but I thought I'd find out by asking on some other book thread first.
TS
I got the warm fuzzies seeing you support fellow FReeper LS's book sales.
Speaking of fellow FReeper's books, we're waiting....Matthew....are you out there?
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.
| Reviewer: | Matthew Bracken (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews |
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Got some grandkids that need to read this...............
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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.
Excellent news. Congratulations LS.
Just ordered it on Amazon. I'd love to join a Freepers Conservative Book Club!
Does LS also have a White House press pass?
Did LS receive secret communications from Karl Rove?
Is LS really Karl Rove in disguise?
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.
Way to go Larry!
LS, congratulations and I wish you great success in getting your message to a very broad-based audience.
Thanks. Can't wait to get my copy!
Fan-FReepin'-tastic news!!
How many FReepers have published books?
Great news - thanks for passing it along! Way to go, LS!! Woo hoo!!!!!!!