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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.57 You Save: $6.38 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9781595230324 ISBN: 1595230327 Label: Sentinel Trade Manufacturer: Sentinel Trade Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 944 Publication Date: February 27, 2007 Publisher: Sentinel Trade Studio: Sentinel Trade Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way AmericaÂ’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of AmericaÂ’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 PatriotÂ’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, AmericaÂ’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 AmericaÂ’s true and proud history. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fair Book, but some very suspect writingThis book was a fair history text, but not the best I have seen. The writers spend very little time on the War of 1812 or the Mexican War, given the influence and significance they had on America as a world power. The coverage of Antebellum, the Civil War and the Reconstruction periods is also painfully short for the overall impact this period had on American history. The New Deal is strongly criticized with the writers showing the impact programs had after 50 years. This ... Read More Rating:  - A valuable source bookAn accurate and useful view of history can never be gotten from one single source. An accurate knowledge of history is crucial if we want to avoid making the same catastrophic mistakes over and over again. i.e. do you understand how Hitler gained power? Would you recognize the techniques if they were instituted here? If you doubt that American history has been rewritten, go to a used book store and find older books and compare them with books published after the 50s and 60s. Find out ... Read More Rating: - An Excellent Approach, But Too Often Factually IncorrectI was predisposed to view the authors' approach favorably in that an antidote to the left-wing and Marxist textbooks currently in use in American public schools and colleges is sorely needed. In fact, there have been some studies that have shown many high school graduates to actually believe that the US is a dangerous aggressor nation, that capitalism is an evil, and that the only solution is socialism under a world government. Where did they learn this? In school, of course, and if they go ... Read More Rating: - A refreshing and just emphasis on the positiveOn so many levels the authors demonstrate with historical facts that America's greatness is greater than the undeniable instances of racism, sexism and bigotry. The waves of immigrants that keep coming to this country must intuitively know, without benefit of these 825 enlightening pages, that the emphasis in this book is correct. Rating: - An excellent referenceThis is an excellent reference and textbook. It provides a more balanced look at American History than many popular textbooks that seem to have an anti-American bias. This is the text that should be used in most of our history classes today. Every history teacher and school administrator should read and review this book BEFORE ordering his or her history textbooks. It would also be good reading for everybody else to correct misinformation they may have been taught in school. Highly recommended! 
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