The weighty, 944-page “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” originally published in 2004, has been lauded by mainstream press as “refreshing” in its absence of a political agenda or social rebuke. Numerous pages of research notes and cited sources back up its content, which goes “From Columbus’s Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement,” as indicated by the book’s updated-edition subtitle.
With a combined experience of teaching American history for 60 years, authors Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen allowed America’s past to speak for itself. In the book’s introduction, the authors note: “The evidence is there for telling the great story of the American past honestly—with flaws, absolutely; with shortcomings, most definitely. But we think that an honest evaluation of the history of the United States must begin and end with the recognition that, compared to any other nation, America’s past is a bright and shining light.”…