A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to America's Age of Entitlement, Revised Edition

Larry Schweikart · Michael Allen

Nov 2014 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

I bumped into a used copy of this at our library giveaway. I get it that the concept is to push back against Howard Zinn, but it comes off as apologist for American imperialism and shameless nationalism. If it were really an answer to anything Zinn claims, it should have done that instead. But this is like a Fox News Glenn Beck grasping for straws tabloid history. Not good overall.

This is what happens when somebody watches only far right news sources. Every awful thing America has done is somehow equivocated into something positive. This isn't a serious book of history.

An accurate account of American history, this book should be in every history classroom across all U.S. public schools.

About the author

Larry Schweikart is a retired professor of history at the University of Dayton. He has written more than twenty books on banking and financial history, business history, and national defense, including The Entrepreneurial Adventure, America’s Victories, 48 Liberal Lies About American History, Seven Events That Made America America, and, with Dave Dougherty, A Patriot’s History of the Modern World. In 2017 he published How Trump Won with Joel Pollak, and in 2019 his biography of Ronald Reagan, Reagan: The American President, appeared. He lives in Chandler, Arizona with his wife, Dee, and has one grown son, Adam.

Michael Allen was born and raised in Ellensburg, Washington, and served as a Marine Corps artilleryman in Vietnam. He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and is the author of the prize-winning Western Rivermen, 1763–1861 and Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination, as well as several other books on American history and the American West. He lives in Ellensburg, and has three grown children, Jim, Davy, and Caroline.