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|  | Authors: Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen
Publisher: Sentinel Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Rating:  246 reviews
Sales Rank: 285
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 960
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 2.2
ISBN: 1595230327
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9781595230324
ASIN: 1595230327
Publication Date: February 27, 2007
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 MUST HAVE FOR FAMILY LIBRARY July 8, 2010
Mommy69 (USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
HONEST, TRUE, AN EASY READER. THINGS INSIDE THIS BOOK YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TAUGHT IN SCHOOL.
 Premise flawed July 5, 2010
Donald Wj Macmillan (MA, U.S.)
29 out of 45 found this review helpful
I have read a tremendous amount of history, good and bad, over 50 years. I am near 60 and fell in love with history and reading it from the age of 10.
The premise that it is somehow bad or wrong to focus too much on past transgressions or mistakes is, I believe, a flawed one. Taking a rose colored glasses view of our history will only set us up for more failures like our ruthless treatment of Native Americans, slavery, Jim Crow, The rise of the Klan and lynching, the exploitation of female and immigrant labor, the internment of the Japanese and confiscation of their property in the second world war, the Red scares, McCarthyism and so forth. As an individual concerned with my growth as a human being I spend most of my reflection time not on my successes but more on understanding where I have stumbled and not lived up to my own personal creed. I do this so I can prevent their reoccurance - I believe that I've actually gained more from doing this kind of reflection and searching for deep understanding than from my minimizing my past transgressions. I believe a nation will too in reflecting on its history.
I'll end with this: I remember a time as a young boy in school looking at a picture in a history book showing black slaves in a cotton field. The astonishing thing for me was the big wide grins on their faces, it looked like they were having the times of their lives. I'm white BTW, but even then and being a white kid I knew there was something wrong with that depiction. I submit that the history and social studies books in the 1950's were slanted away from addressing what had been done to people of color as our nation aged forward, even if by glaring omission. There certainly was no liberal slant that I can remember.
The History I Never Knew. July 4, 2010
bob
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the way U.S. history should be presented to all Americans, from grade school through all levels of higher education.
best American history book June 25, 2010
C. Busch (USA)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Great book. If you want to see what you've been missing, this is the book. Over the years, political groups have tried to water down some things about our history and eliminate others (Founding Fathers). A Patriots History puts them back. NO lies, no spin, no kidding.
Now this is a history book! June 25, 2010
Kennith Perry (Goldthwaite, TX United States)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you want to learn what really happened in the history of the United States, then this is the book for you. If you want the politically correct garbage they teach in public schools, then this book is not for you. I am learning things I never learned in school. I highly recommend this book for all, especially parents who want their children to actually know their history.
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