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This is easily better than any of the history books that I ever used in school. Instead of merely hitting all of the main/big events in history, Schweikart goes into detail about why those events even happened at all. He does seem a bit biased toward the United States, but to be fair, his book is titled "A Patriot's History," not "An Objective History."
The book is a tour de force & discusses a wide span of events. I did not share the sentiment the authors had of history books (MA in History) not having courageous or virtuous American stories anymore but I did grow up in Texas & live there (unlike the authors on the West Coast). My main two complaints is the book discusses others bias without fully recognizing & discussing its’ own at length. As well, it can start to sound like my dad (who was armed services) when he watches Fox News or stay on Facebook too long during election time, ultimately triggered or butthurt about the democratization of American history & history more generally. This xenophobic behavior towards other religions or cultures is a problem as the world becomes more connected imo.
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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 1/2 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 1/2 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...
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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.
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.
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.