A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror
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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, prejudice, 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 persons we faced from Josef Stalin.
A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects persons doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the fundamentals of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s right and proud history.
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Look people, there is one reason why America is yet to be of everyone else, and it’s that we had the benefit of three hundred years of free labor — slavery. The only way to place such a blight on the history of this country into perspective is to admit its unpleasantness, and the fact that that unpleasantness is natural fiber into the fabric of our greedy American selves.
You can white wash the history of this country all you want, but the truth is that our “values” are not particularly lofty, nor have they every been. We’re greedy, self-absorbed sadists, and THIS BOOK PROVES IT.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Kindle Edition is priced too high. Looks appealing but I am not interested at a pricepoint above $9.99 for the Kindle Edition.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
One only needs to read the back take in of this book to see what its contents attempt to do: Gloss over American society’s institutionalized attempt to deny “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” to anyone who is not white, protestant and male.
Slavery, keeping women from voting, the forced migration and placement of Native Americans, are all denials of the concept of civil rights. A concept that is explicitly described and promoted in this country’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence.
These horrendous acts, regularly enabled and facilitated by the government, are well documented at the time of their occurrences. One need not go further than reading the prominent authors of persons times (Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Eastmen, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to know their real and tangible effects. Hell, just read the laws of persons periods to see what Mr. Schweikart and Mr. Allen like to deny or casually refer to as “flaws” and “shortcomings”. The forced enslavement of one ethnicity and codified genocidal practices against another are grotesquely ingrained in our past and should be remembered, taught and discussed to ensure they never take place again.
For Mr. Schweikart and Mr. Allen to call themselves professors of history and deny the being of history is an insult. I pity the very students that fall under the tutelage of such teachers that do nothing but promote a political agenda of American exceptionalism born out of delusions of religious grandeur.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book was…how to place it? Representative of every reason why the rest of the world despises America. The previous reviewer said this book is for grown-ups…Fox News viewers,in their fantasy world, perhaps, but grown-ups? Grown-ups accept responsibility for reality. Grown ups avoid a fantasy world. Grown ups examine their mistakes so as not to repeat them. It not only denies some of the saddest episodes in American History, but it leaves out vital people and issues. Schweikart may reflect that one half of one paragraph and one mention each of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are sufficient to mark their contribution to American History, but, 51% of the population begs to differ–if it weren’t for them, women STILL would not be voting. This book could be called “American History for Simpletons.”
The previous reviewer’s description of Zinn’s book as an “unbook” revealed a lot to me about the mindset of the readers of this book. Therefore, I will use their language in order to get the message across to them about how despicable this book really is. A Patriot’s History of the United States by Larry Schweikart is double plus ungood.
This book is excellent for one thing…FLUSH!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
As students of history and television journalism, this book strikes many of us as just another attempt by the so-called “Right” to recast history to suit the leader’s Fox-esque biases. The premise is excellent. The final product — disappointing.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5