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.
Distinctly cool.
Thanks for the post. Just ordered the book.
Congratulations to LS.......now if we could just get Laura to interview all our FR authors......PING
I bought this book about two weeks ago. It is tremendous. I had no idea this guy was a Freeper. Definitely go buy the book. I would recommend it regardless of whether he was a member of my favorite internet discussion site.
I kept my mouth shut -- and otherwise gave the kids a flood of reality. They loved it. And this in a very, very liberal area in MD. Most of them are instinctively conservative and liberty-loving, and don't know it. They just need reinforcement. LS's book will give it to them.
GeronL: you can put me on the list of FR writers (2 books & counting).
I had to digest and regurgitate some of Howard Zinn's propaganda as part of my "Core Studies" a few years ago. I just ordered "A Patriots History of the United States" from Amazon. It will be here next Monday and I'm looking forward to reading it.
Bump to all FRauthors!
A Patriot's History of the United States:
From Columbus's Great Discovery
to the War on Terror
by Larry Schweikart
with Michael Patrick AllenHow to Beat the Democrats
and Other Subversive Ideas
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Big Fat Stupid White Man
by David T. Hardy
and Jason Clarke
Thanks for posting. Congratulations Larry!
