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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.
A Patriots History of the United States From Columbuss Great Discovery to the War on Terror Customer Reviews:
Average Rating: 3.5 (257 reviews)
Rating: 5 (A cure for history-starved students of all ages) Was helpful to 144 from 199 votes
I lost some sleep last night because I could not stop reading this book - and I consider myself well-read in history. The authors have performed a needed service, and I only wish I could somehow put this book into the hands of every high-school student in America. The book jacket blurb immediately made me think of a 5th-grade history text I read a few years ago - the purpose of which, it seemed, was to make my housemate's ten-year old daughter ashamed of her country. It seemed like every month the kid was writing yet another paper on either Harriet Tubman or the internment camps - and yet she had no idea how the United States was different from other all other nations at the time it was founded. I'm hoping that this book will make some dent in the despicable efforts of the America-hating Left to brainwash young Americans against their country. My 15-year old nephew asked me for a book on history for Christmas (believe it or not, he plays football too) and I got him "The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History." Well, I'm getting him his own copy of this book too, and I'm not waiting til next Christmas.
Rating: 5 (The Truth Rises Again) Was helpful to 286 from 415 votes
Being a baby boomer, i can still recall the American history contained in textbooks during my early educational years. Over time, the liberals that infest our "learning" institutions have carefully crafted an American history more to their liking. I have great sympathy for those being hatched out of primary schools nowadays as they have never been exposed to the positive side of our country, and its people. the likes of another reviewer (MrG) are unfortunately misguided. but don't take mine, or his, word for it. give this tome a try. its a labor of love as is any history book. but its well worth the time it will take you to read it. it brings things to life and is seldom dry. don't let the title disuade you, you don't have to consider yourself a flag waving patriot to enjoy it. it does however, present an alternative point of view to the propaganda our children are exposed to nowadays. who knows, it may be the last book of its kind before the liberal indoctrination is complete.
Rating: 5 (A must read) Was helpful to 52 from 87 votes
This book is a must read for anybody. Larry Schweikart, and Michael Allen have a good understanding of American history and how it happened. This book is very interesting, I could not put it down. Anyone into American history should read this book.
Rating: 4 (Balance the Record) Was helpful to 266 from 364 votes
First, I must point out that I am a 30-year critic of American academia, especially departments of humanities (or "Arts & sciences"). I am a former dual PhD candidate who left academia in 1980 and never looked back. I battled Political Correctness before it had a name.
There are few good scholars on our campuses, a fact that has not changed over the centuries. Less than 10% of tenured Professors publish anything beyond their dissertation, which may be a good thing. Of the more prominent of those who do publish, most of them and their "works" are forgotten before they retire (and the in-thing is to cash in on early retirement offers). Too often, students professors "know" to be mediocre or not cut out to be graduate students are actively recruited for graduate school, by graduate status professors.
As a group, professors treat graduate students like canon fodder. Why? In order to fill unfilled seats. Most state legislators cut funding for seats that go unfilled.
Professors have no intention of placing their reputation or status on a limb by trying to place mediocre graduate students. Many of them go on to be social misfits. Our public universities are not just diploma mills. Worse than than they manufacture misfits. Look around any large public university and you will find hundreds of people with graduate and PhD degrees working book store counters, pushing brooms down University halls, working stoop laborer joba in natural foods super markets or area distribution warehouses and clerking in snack outlets like Starbucks & Sushi Palace. More than a few become thorns for local employers and managers as over educated armchair "experts" who "know" better than management or owners how the firm should be run.
I have waited many years for a few honorable tenured professors to publish a truthful account of what I have outlined above. I still wait. I am delighted that two seasoned professors mustered the courage to write and publish a much needed criticism and corrective of what too often passes for academic history.
Believe me. It took courage to publish "Patriots History..." The authors will get much grief from many other academic historians for daring to write a real critique of American History writing. Other professors who agree with the authors will choose silence and a few will even criticize "Patriots History..." in vain attempt to be less hated by the left liberal academics they must interact with on campus.
I highly recommend that all literate or "educated" people read this book. It will balance your image of our past that you were likely force fed. I strongly advise that you pay no attention to those who trash this book and its authors. Keep in mind that when you read a history, you do not read scientific data about the past. That is impossible. What you read is writing based on written documents. A lot of judgement calls and opinion go into writing any history. The less broadly educated the author, the less value will be that authors attempt to reconstruct the past. Too many academic historians today never even attempt to reconstruct the past, which is supposed to be the historian's illusive craft. They let you think that is what they try to do but what too many of them do is try to use written documents and highly dense or very smooth prose to support their personal social-political ideology.
History writing is a form of literature. At its best, it is scholarly literature, which means most of it penned by academics is not worth reading. No one, for instance, should be awarded a PhD in American History who does not have a firm grasp on world history, a decent start in studying the Western Canon & general understanding of pre-Renaissance philosophy. Many PhD degrees in American History are awarded to people who do not know even one foreign language or have any interest in the world beyond the United States. One would think mastery of written Spanish, an easy language for an American to learn, would be a minimum requirement for any American History PhD candidate but it isn't!
Many allegedly "educated" people worship at the feet of Historian Howard Zinn. These ideologues will automatically attack "Patriot's History...". About them, I leave you with this thought. Zinn's major work, "A People's History of the United States" is highly selective in what it covers & it skips over the many issues that left liberal academics tend skip over. For instance, is American slavery the remarkable thing about our past, or is the fact that for the first time in history people rose and organized--in England and in America--against slavery and would not rest until they wiped it out all over the world. The Anti-Slavery Society remains active and it is a Western, white guy, organization. (by the way, I am not 'white') Why are there hundreds of books on Black Slavery but not one history of a larger group, the white indentured and bonded servants? Why are there no studies of how Americans came to drop white indentured servitude? They were cheaper than slaves. Why are American slavery studies done out of context? That is, why isn't slavery studied within its proper context, labor history? Why do labor historians ignore indentured servitude as well as slavery?
I do not suggest that "Patriot's History..." is a perfect book or that it contains the 'whole truth'. Neither do the authors.
Rating: 1 ("A Republican's History of the United States") Was helpful to 50 from 228 votes
This work is remarkable more for what it leaves out than what it includes in its panoramic, though tendentious, sweep of US history. The reader realizes in the opening passages that the authors intend to refute Howard Zinn's "A People's History," but in their zeal, they have written a book that would not pass muster as a dissertation in any doctoral program in the country; this book would not survive a scholarly peer review from detached professional American historians. The book reminds this reader of the triumphalistic, party-line, national histories written for children in the former Warsaw Pact nations and the Soviet Union in the Breschnev era.
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