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A few updates: I will appear on Faux News's "The Korean War" special with Brett Baier, Sunday night, May 28, 10:00. I know may of you are boycotting FAUX, and I respect that. Did this for an old filmmaking friend. Also, I have begun a MWF youtube show "Patriot's History," where I just read through "A Patriot's History of the United States" at 12 noon EST on the Wild World of History channel. Just started the Revolutionary War. We are 24 episodes in, all in the video archives. We are working to make "Patriot's History" in to a "John Adams/Sons...

The final Heartland Author Series event before The Heartland Institute moves its headquarters from One South Wacker Drive, #2740, to its new facility in Arlington Heights was held on Thursday, May 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  Featured was Larry Schweikart, who along with co-author Michael Allen, wrote the newly released 10th anniversary edition of “A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement.” It is irrefutable that during past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism,...

Rush discussing the fact that despite $50 million in FREE marketing from the drive-by media, Hillary's book can't get above #4 on Amazon. When Patriot's History of the United States first came out, it got to #35 and stayed there for a while despite virtually no national publicity---and before Glenn Beck discovered it six years later. All it took was some mentions by Beck to take it all the way to #1, not just on Amazon, but on the NYTimes list, but my subsequent book "Seven Events that Made America" made the NYTimes list without much fanfare from Beck. Rush's...

"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. "....

Truly amazing: the power of Glenn Beck. He mentioned A Patriot's History of the U.S. today on his radio show, then again on the TV show, and lo and behold, #1. Big stuff happening. Can't tell all yet, but watch our web pages, www.patriotshistoryusa.com and www.rockinthewall.com. Oh, and if anyone knows how to do a screen saver, I'd like to bronze this one.

Gotta love Tom Brady's taste.

The history of the United States is a tale of constant oppression— a story of a checkered past where political leaders and economic moguls continually acted in their own self-interest… or so many left-leaning history authors would prefer modern Americans to believe. American history has been hijacked by the left wing, where the mistakes of America’s past such as slavery, disenfranchisement, and class warfare are overemphasized, while Franklin D. Roosevelt is simultaneously glorified as the savior of the twentieth century with his New Deal policies. While most textbooks of that nature may cast American history in a bad light and...

Looks like I'll be on with Bridget Quinn and John Scott "debating" Alan Lichtman over the place of the Clinton impeachment in textbooks. Among other things, I'll demand fairness, that as the second impeached president he gets every bit as much attention as the first---Andrew Johnson. I'll also insist that he was acquitted only because the Senate refused to do its job. And it was not about sex.

Jeff Head's Review of "A Patriot's History of the United States" Larry Schweikart (Freeper LS) and Michael Allen have written a history of the United States that is tremendously broad in scope, and monumental in its approach in our modern times. It begins with Christopher Columbus and proceeds through to current events, including 9-11 and its aftermath, the War on Terror and the fights in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the re-election of George W. Bush.. The work covers over 510 years of history in 825 pages. There are over 70 pages of footnotes at the end of the...

Michael Allen, co-author of "A Patriot's History of the United States" (with Freeper LS) will be speaking at Carwein Auditorium, UW tacoma, 6 pm sponsored by the UW alum association. Come support the cause, jeer the hecklers, and cheer a patriot!

Arizona Freepers: I'll be out visiting my mother in June or July, so if we can get a "critical mass" of, say, 10 people who would want to come to a book signing, say, in the Tempe/Scottsdale/Mesa area, I can probably arrange one.

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm EST - Warriors! Buzz is rejoined by Ollie North as they discuss the ongoing war on terror, Ollie's latest bestseller 'War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific,' and the most important element in our national defense -- the American soldier. Also, Buzz continues his series speaking with troops on the ground in Iraq as LT COL Duke Deluca, US Army, calls in from...

Just curious if anyone saw my interview with Pat Robertson today on the "700 Club." I was in a Columbus studio looking at a camera and he was in Virginia, so I never even saw him. Since this is really my first time at this, I wondered if I looked like an idiot.

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!

Freepers, I know many of you follow Laura's show closely. I'll be on for about 20 min. talking about "A Patriot's History of the United States." Oh, I guess I should mention that a certain Freeper was interviewed by El Rushbo for the March Issue of the Limbaugh Letter." Rush loved the book and promised to do his best to push it!

<p>FP: What do you think motivates many Americans to loathe their own country?</p> <p>Schweikart: I think this has its origins in several underlying factors. One is, liberals hate capitalism because it's been my experience that they just don't understand it. Most haven't read Adam Smith and certainly don't get that "self interest" is not selfishness. So right off the bat, any country that is primarily capitalist is "evil."</p>

Don't know much about history? Do your kids only know America as an imperialist, warmongering nation? A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror might be the book for you. A Patriot's History is just short of 1,000 pages written by two conservative history professors, Larry Schweikart (University of Dayton) and Michael Allen (University of Washington, Tacoma). It's not only a primer on American history, but a friendly primer — sometimes a rarity among such books. Professor Schweikart spoke to NRO's Kathryn Lopez this week about the book, and since it's Presidents'...

Freepers, a heartfelt thank you. Your support is causing this book to perform beyond our wildest dreams. Today we hit #49 on Amazon, putting us way ahead of Brian Kilmeade and Judge Napolitano who get free advertising on Fox. Under 50 slots to go now to make this #1. And I assure you that I know there are tricks and gimmicks to get a #1 Amazon seller: we are NOT using any tricks, no promotions or "bonuses" to people who jimmy orders. This is all you and other American patriots! Thanks again. Here is the link to prove it! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1595230017/qid=1092168718/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-5583076-1547842?v=glance&s=books

I don't know which of his stations I'll be on---John Hinderaker of www.powerlineblog.com will be guest-hosting. I will be on from 8:00-8:30 EST, beginning the third hour.

For a half a century, the interpretation of America's story has drifted steadily leftward, sometimes almost imperceptibly and sometimes rather obviously. Whether through deliberate revision designed to question America's unique place in the world---often out of guilt---or whether through the steady assault of race, class, "gender," and other "oppressed/oppressor" scholarship, the overwhelming majority of U.S. history textbooks today have a distinct leftward slant. This became apparent to me more than a decade ago as I struggled to find a textbook that would emphasize the Founders and their visionary documents, analyze the New Deal critically (pointing out its myriad long-term harms),...