A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement, Revised Edition
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For the 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, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.”
As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin.
A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
ASIN : B00INIXT5E
Publisher : Sentinel; Revised, Updated edition (November 25, 2014)
Publication date : November 25, 2014
Language : English
File size : 3141 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 1008 pages
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Customers find the book has good information and a comprehensive account of American history. They describe it as an easy read with great writing. Readers also find the content insightful and approachable. They appreciate that the book sticks to facts and states truths where media lies.
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Daniel Potts –
The true view of history
A Patriot’s History of the United States presents a very comprehensive, truthful account of the history of our beloved country. A clear and balanced view. I highly recommend it.
Code-man –
Extremely readable and great content.
Ordered this to read on deployment and was just the ticket. As with all histories, readability is paramount especially for a book of this length. Not only is this content refreshing compared to the leftist books these days, but it is also highly readable and never seems to bore and get too bogged down in minutia like some history books.
jessabelle1 –
Warning against buying the audio version
I highly recommend this book, but I’m submitting a three-star review based on the book’s very weak and undisciplined finish. I thought the first two-thirds of the book provided a well-documented and well-thought-out presentation of America’s regional differences and the history behind those differences. It was truly enlightening, even for an historian like myself. When writing the last third, however, the author clearly lost his objective discipline. Whereas the first two-thirds were well-reasoned and well-supported, the last third devolved into stereotypes and generalities, and contained more than a few downright errors, particularly concerning the modern Deep South and Greater Appalachia. I am an unapologetic Left Coaster with clear leanings toward activist Yankeeism, but even I was able to see Mr. Woodard’s clear bias in the last third of the book. I found myself cringing more than a few times at the outright inaccuracies contained in his presentation of the modern South. I could list at least a half-dozen factual errors in his presentation concerning the practice and influence of Evangelical Christianity in the Bible Belt, for instance, but would rather not bog down this review with nit-picking. It would be great if Mr. Woodard could write a revised edition where he would exercise the same historical discipline in the last third of the book that he did for the first two-thirds. Such a presentation would truly be worthy of five stars. I still feel that this book is very much worth reading, but readers should approach the last third with a skeptical eye.
z –
The best history book written in the last 50 years!
The truth about about our wonderful country! I am so tired of those revisionist ‘history’ books. If you are interested in learning about how the USA was really founded you might want to read this book.
Amazon Customer –
Love
My eleventh grader is using this for history this year. Covers so much!
RHG –
History is always distorted when written from a political perspective.
The publisher has declared A Patriotâs History of the United States as âthe definitive conservative historyâ stating on the back cover that the authors, Professors Schweikart and Allen, âset out to correct the doctrinaire biases that have distorted the way Americaâs past is taught.â That may be, but in so doing the authors have introduced their own biases.This is especially true for the bookâs treatment of President Franklin Roosevelt declaring that the New Deal âmust be considered a failure,â that âRoosevelt and his staff were becoming habitual bullies, pitting Americans against one another,â and even writing off John Steinbeckâs The Grapes of Wrath as just âanother application of leeches or a dose of castor oil masquerading as social commentary.â Yet, from 1933 through 1940 real GDP grew an average of 6.3 percent annually, a record unbroken except during World War II. Similarly, non-farm employment grew 4.0 percent annually; no post-war president has exceeded 2.5 percent. And although Roosevelt certainly made many enemies, Americans reelected Roosevelt in 1936, at the height of the New Deal, with a near-record 60.2 percent of the popular vote.Similarly, President Carter is given short shrift as a âfailed president.â Although the authors write that âReagan benefited greatly from momentum already begun under Carter,â Carter is given a scant seven pages in the 867-page book. Yet Carter deregulated transportation and energy, fathered the energy conservation movement, cut capital gains taxes from 39.9 percent to 28 percent, brokered the Egypt-Israel peace agreement, and appointed Fed Chairman Paul Volker who, after draconian measures, had tamed inflation by 1983.These faults are not unique. History is always distorted when written from a political perspective. But most readers can hopefully overlook the authorsâ own biases and find A Patriotâs History of the United States to be a comprehensive and worthwhile contribution to the history of our great country.
TBS –
Happy with this purchase
I am enjoying this book very much, written well, lots of information, not boring. Would be a great book for homeschoolers.
David –
Everyone should read
Great book
Daniel George –
Die beste Buch was ich über Amerikanischen Geschichte gelesen habe. Als Amerikaner wünsche ich das ich dieses Buch im der Schule gehabt hat.
opalqnka –
My first book on US history. This is not a boring read, just grab it.