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|  | Authors: Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen
Publisher: Sentinel Trade
Category: Book
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Rating:  257 reviews
Sales Rank: 342
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 960
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 2
ISBN: 1595230327
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9781595230324
ASIN: 1595230327
Publication Date: February 27, 2007
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 I wish there were more like this December 23, 2009
john washington
73 out of 103 found this review helpful
This book is great. It's enormous (over 900 pgs.) so it might have to be digested slowly but it's worth it. I'm a patriot and am glad to finally have a book that doesn't make me feel bad about being an American. This book actually shows the positive things our founding fathers did (a novelty compared to many of the other history books.) It contains all the information the other books have (minus the tendency toward revisionism) but goes beyond, including things the more left-leaning tomes avoid. Recommended as a gift for history buffs and home schooling. Children who read this will gain the information that is taught in public schools but will also learn all the things the schools omit. Highly Reccomended.
The American history book I've been looking for November 27, 2009
T. L. Robinette (Columbus, OH USA)
38 out of 56 found this review helpful
I have been looking for an American history book that can give me the real scoop without the liberal spin-job history text books are feeding our children. I have found what I'm looking for in A Patriot's History... It's highly readable.
 More American Exceptionalism October 28, 2009
S. Collier
39 out of 205 found this review helpful
One only needs to read the back cover 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, often 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 those times (Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Eastmen, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to understand their real and tangible effects. Hell, just read the laws of those 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 happen again.
For Mr. Schweikart and Mr. Allen to call themselves professors of history and deny the existence 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.
 great book October 27, 2009
Mickey Rhode (Pleasant Hill, CA)
12 out of 30 found this review helpful
from the little I have read this book promises to present American history in a proper perspective, quite unlike most history books.
 A Disappointment October 14, 2009
David T. Williams (Hilton, NY United States)
27 out of 53 found this review helpful
I wanted to love this book, I really did. I agree with the central premise that American history has more to be proud of than our schoolchildren are learning in school. However, attempting to read this book reminded me of why I learned more history after leaving school than I ever did in it. The book reads like a textbook, with all that that implies. The new information I gleaned was not worth the effort to read the fine print of the pages, and there are an awful lot of pages. Perhaps it was a mistake to try to pack all of the information into one volume. This in itself would not be unforgivable, were it not for the factual errors. The biggest howler I saw (I confess freely that I could not finish the book) was the reference to Lewis Cass as "the last remaining Republican" in Democratic President James Buchanan's cabinet. (In fact, Cass was the 1848 Democratic Party nominee for President.) James Buchanan was a bitter partisan, and he would not have hired a Republican as a White Hous usher, let alone let one into his cabinet. Other errors have been pointed out by other reviewers.
I think this project would have been better as a two or three volume work. Releasing the material in three books would have allowed (I believe) more time for proof-reading and fact-checking.
We do need a book that reminds our people that American history is to be proud of, not ashamed of, but this book isn't it.
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