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A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror by Larry Schweikart

3.0

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I would give this book 4 stars for the thoroughness of the history it reports. The presentation of facts is detailed, except where the author felt the need to digress into near rants in an obvious effort to counter the arguments posed in the people's history of the United States by Howard Zinn. In these cases, it is obvious that while an accomplished historian, Schweikart is a weak debater. He should have opted to present the facts in the same tone as the majority of his work and left the reader to make their own opinions based on the facts he presented.

I would give it 2 stars for tone. Dry and monotonous, this book reads only slightly better than a text book. Definitely fails to make history come alive for the reader.