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eelsmac's review against another edition
funny
sad
slow-paced
0.25
Well that's 30 hours I'll never get back. The author's contempt for anything that doesn't fit in their trickle down capitalist, evangelical Christian worldview is staggering. The selective forgetting of certain aspects of history is also bewildering.
The chapters on the Antebellum period, Civil War, and the Reconstruction are not terrible. Those chapters are the only reason I'm giving this 1/4 of a star.
The Columbus worship, the fragility of in trying to clap back on claims that Jefferson fathered a child with his slave, trying to justify a worldview that the founders intended for a Christian nation, the thinly veiled anger towards women's liberation or the attempts to impeach the dignity of the press or former presidents that they clearly don't like.... it's exhausting and entirely too long. Whoever edited this and kept in the authors' tirades, dubious citations, and patently false information should be ashamed of themselves.
I suppose the upside is that since I'm a woman and used my time to read this, it probably is upsetting to the authors that I, 1. can read, and 2. spent time reading instead of being barefoot and pregnant in a kitchen. Though I did listen to part of the book while cooking, but then again I made South Asian paratha, so I'm sure that the dish being outside of the "white heteronormative populist evangelical Christian" genre cancels that out...
The chapters on the Antebellum period, Civil War, and the Reconstruction are not terrible. Those chapters are the only reason I'm giving this 1/4 of a star.
The Columbus worship, the fragility of in trying to clap back on claims that Jefferson fathered a child with his slave, trying to justify a worldview that the founders intended for a Christian nation, the thinly veiled anger towards women's liberation or the attempts to impeach the dignity of the press or former presidents that they clearly don't like.... it's exhausting and entirely too long. Whoever edited this and kept in the authors' tirades, dubious citations, and patently false information should be ashamed of themselves.
I suppose the upside is that since I'm a woman and used my time to read this, it probably is upsetting to the authors that I, 1. can read, and 2. spent time reading instead of being barefoot and pregnant in a kitchen. Though I did listen to part of the book while cooking, but then again I made South Asian paratha, so I'm sure that the dish being outside of the "white heteronormative populist evangelical Christian" genre cancels that out...
emarie_books's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
slow-paced
3.0
katherinebriggs's review against another edition
5.0
Written from a conservative standpoint, A Patriot’s History of the United States builds upon its chosen pillars of America’s exceptionalism. I appreciate their sharing different sides to an issue, and found the book to be thorough. Great for seeking to understand the conservative take of America’s history.
amauberzinski's review against another edition
2.0
I teach and have my degree in history. I really wanted an opposing view to Zinns book. However, this is too biased and leaves too much information out although it is over 650 pages long. I’m having a hard time finding a book that is unbiased and that shows both sides of our story.
ascaris75's review against another edition
2.0
I appreciated that the authors don't hide the political slant of the book. I found some of their perspectives interesting and different from how I had considered the history before. I liked the Civil War-era chapters. However, as it moved into more modern history, the conservative slant became too much.
grllopez's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
maryrose__pat8's review against another edition
1.0
This is a completely biased, right-wing based text. A history book should be nonpartisan, unbiased. It slams the liberal thinkers of this nation and glorifies conservative leadership. Yes, I am a liberal, but I wouldn’t want a textbook to be liberal-based either, just like a young Republican wouldn’t want a liberally biased text. History texts like this are not supposed to be partial to one side. Also, it glorifies Trump throughout the end of the book and practically vilifies President Barack Obama. Horrible text. And I had an equally not so great professor who assigned the book. If I could give it negative stars, I would.