A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror

Larry Schweikart · Michael Allen

Jan 2006 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

About this audiobook

Since the liberal revolution of the ’60s and ’70s, American history books have been biased toward the negative, distorting the way America’s past is taught. They overemphasize America’s racism, sexism, and bigotry while downplaying the greatness of her patriots. As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington, more on the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII than D-day or Iwo Jima, more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin.

This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history. The authors reexamine America’s discovery, founding, and development with an appreciation for the principles of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that have made this nation so uniquely successful.

Ratings and reviews

A mockumentary, fan-made attempt to appreciate a fascism rise in the USA, pulling in pride of genocide against the natives, and empathy towards slavery. I see how so many people are proud to be wrathful and violent, this book is good at condoning the seven deadly sins. Satan gives 10/10, I give a 1/5 due to the angery-biased personality within these pages.

Had to read it for school. It's good overall.

good app

About the author

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen are the coauthors of A Patriot’s History of the United States and have each written several books on American history and politics.

Michael Allen is a prizewinning author and a professor of history and American studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma.

Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist several times and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has won a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, numerous Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews, and multiple Editors' Picks, Top 10, and Year's Best lists. He is the only male audiobook narrator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To relax in his spare time, Patrick runs marathons.