A Patriots History of the United States, Kindle and PDF

A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror Review In A Patriot’s History of the United States, Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen remind us what a few good individuals can do in just a few short centuries . . . . A fluid account of America from the discovery of the Continent up to the present day. (Brandon Miniter, The Wall Street Journal)No recent American history challenges the conventional wisdom of academics as aggressively as Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s A Patriot’s History of the United States. (Daniel J. Flynn, Front Page Magazine)There are a thousand pleasant surprises and heartening reminders that underneath it all America remains a country of ideas, ideals, and optimism—and no amount of revisionism can take that legacy away. (John Coleman, Humane Studies Review)A welcome, refreshing, and solid contribution to relearning what we have forgotten and remembering why this nation is good, and worth defending. (Matthew Spalding, National Review --The Wall Street Journal 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.

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bluesky00 (2011-03-29)

bwahahahaha.

jimmicrack (2011-03-30)

In other words, this is aload of bullshit tea bagger made up history, in which contards are painted as the saviors of "murica, when in fact, they are the garbage that has destroyed everything good and true and virtuos in American society.
Republicans have destroyed our economy, attacked every brown person they thought they could get away with, and lied every time they opened their filthy mouths.
This is Fox News "history", which means it's not worth the time of anybody with a mind.

ercwynn (2011-03-30)

I'll download this and try to give it a fair shake. But... I was never taught to be embarrased by American History. History is supposed to give examples of Mistakes as well as Triumphs, otherwise there is no point in learning from it.

xelcho (2011-04-13)

The opening of Wikipedia really kinda sums it up:
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror is a 2004 book on American history by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. Written from a conservative standpoint, it is a counterpoint to Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and asserts that the United States is an "overwhelmingly positive" force for good in the world.
If one take a moment to review the impetuous, Howard Zinn's "A people's history of the US". It is crystal clear that Zinn wrote this book based upon the failure, not the standard, to write from the view point of the victims, or the looser's story. The assertion of this new book seems to be more or less a return to normality than a consideration of was it right?, just because you can does it mean you should? or even more interesting, who were the beneficiaries of the any of these actions?
Seems to be more the noble hyperbole surrounding the wonderful intentions of plans that go bad or good, but no attention to who actually profitted.

sidgirl22 (2011-09-12)

thanks been looking for a while for this on kindle, you rule! Long live the tea party!