Books by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen …
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Since 2005, A Patriot’s History of the United States has become a modern classic for its defense of America as a unique country founded on principles of justice, equality, and freedom for all.
The Patriot’s History Reader continues this tradition by going back to the original sources-the documents, speeches, and legal decisions that shaped our country into what it is today.
The authors explore both oft-cited documents-the Declaration of Independence, Emancipation Proclamation, and Roe v. Wade–as well as those that are less famous. Among these are George Washington’s letter to Alexander Hamilton, which essentially outline America’s military strategy for the next 150 years, and Herbert Hoover’s speech on business ethics, which examines the government’s role in regulating private enterprise.
By helping readers explore history at its source, this book sheds new light on the principles and personalities that have made America great.
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America is at a crossroads. We face two options: continue our descent toward big government, higher taxes, less individual liberty, and more debt or pull our country back on the path our Founding Fathers planned for us. But that path isn’t always so easy to see.
Historian Larry Schweikart tackles some of the key issues confronting our nation today: education, government bailouts, gun control, health care, the environment, and more. For each he asks, “What would the founders say?” and sets out to explore our history and offer wisdom to help us get back on track. What would really be compatible with the vision that Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and the other founders had for America? What Would the Founders Say? is sure to delight anyone looking for a little clarity on tough issues.
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By Larry Schweikart
All students of American history know the big events that dramatically shaped our country. The Civil War, Pearl Harbor, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and 9/11 are just a few. But there are other, less famous events that had an equally profound impact. Notable conservative historian Larry Schweikart takes an in-depth look at seven of these transformative moments and provides an analysis of how each of them spurred a trend that either confirmed or departed from the vision our Founding Fathers had for America. For instance, he shows how Martin Van Buren’s creation of a national political party made it possible for Obama to get elected almost two centuries later and how Dwight Eisenhower’s heart attack led to a war on red meat, during which the government took control over Americans’ diets. In his easy-to-read yet informative style, Schweikart will not only educate but also surprise readers into reevaluating our history.
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By Michael Allen and Larry Schweikart
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For a half a century, the interpretation of America’s story has drifted steadily leftward. Some of this has been the result of deliberate distortions of the New Left, seeking to ‘redress’ the crimes in the American past by excessive criticism and clever slant. Some has come from the leftist influences that shape many academics who write American history, with their obsession with race, class, ‘gender,’ and other ‘oppressed/oppressor’ constructs. And, unfortunately, some of the shift has come from apparently deliberate factual errors based on political partisanship. Now, in A Patriot’s History of the United States, Michael Allen and Larry Schweikart take on what they call more than 50 years of bad scholarship.
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By Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti
Ever since the first colonists landed in ‘The New World’, Americans have forged ahead in their quest to make good on the promises of capitalism and independence. This book vividly illustrates the history of business in the United States from the point of view of the enterprising men and women who made it happen. Weaving together vivid narrative with economic analysis, “American Entrepreneur” recounts fascinating successes and failures, including: how Eli Whitney changed the shape of the American business landscape; the impact of the Civil War on the economy and the subsequent dominance of Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan; the rise of the consumer marketplace led by Asa Candler, W. K. Kellogg, Henry Ford, and J.C. Penny; and, Warren Buffett’s, Michael Milken’s, and even Martha Stewart’s experience in the ‘New Economy’ of the 1990s and into today. It is an adventure to start a business, and the greatest risk takers in that adventure are entrepreneurs. This is the epic story of America’s entrepreneurs and the economy they created.
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By Larry Schweikart
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Over the last forty years, history textbooks have become more and more politically correct and distorted about our country’s past, argues professor Larry Schweikart. The result, he says, is that students graduate from high school and even college with twisted beliefs about economics, foreign policy, war, religion, race relations, and many other subjects.
As he did in his popular A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professor Schweikart corrects liberal bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known. He challenges distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight common myths.
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By Larry Schweikart
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America’s armed services are under attack. From college campuses to the floor of the Senate, the Iraq war is portrayed as a quagmire, the Army is described as “broken,” and our men and women in uniform are maligned as torturers. Hollywood keeps producing anti-war films, and the media celebrates liberal anti-military activists such as Cindy Sheehan.
These critics fail to understand the real nature of the American military. By seeing everything through the distorted lens of Vietnam — a war shrouded in harmful myths —they have lost sight of our country’s real military record, and the factors that have enabled us to win with remarkable consistency, in situations even more dire than Iraq.
by Larry Schweikart
What if the Japanese had won the battle of Midway in 1942? The impact on the war in the Pacific could have been momentous. In Halsey’s Bluff, a new World War II novel by best-selling author Larry Schweikart, the Japanese do win—and Bull Halsey, whose fleet faces total destruction, must use all his skills as a leader and tactician to turn defeat into victory. For those captivated by the real stories of World War II, here is a “counter-factual” tale that reads like real life! And the action doesn’t stop until the last page.
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A novel by Larry Schweikart
September 11 was a day no American can forget, and the reactions it provoked remain with us today. Through the eyes of several individuals, we have a much clearer picture of that deadly day. Meet: – Michael Callahan, FDNY, who finds himself inside the tower as the unthinkable happens. – Falik Maleed, one of Osama bin Laden’s personal assistants, dedicated killer, and terrorist, who nevertheless develops misgivings about his employer. – Thomas Palmer, professional football player, who abandons a life of wealth and fame to join the Army to fight bin Laden, then gets his wish. – “Connie” Cataris, an Ivy League economist, whose startling discoveries put him in the middle of an international plot involving bin Laden’s financing that threatens to turn the world community upside down The paths of these seemingly unrelated people soon intersect with the lives of terrorist Mohammad Atta, patriotic airline passenger Rod Trainor aboard Flight 93, and dedicated CIA agents Lonnie Jackson and Cliff Harrison, with explosive—and tragic—results. This is the story of 9/11 you never heard, told in a way you never imagined!
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By Michael Allen
The eternal struggle between the frontier and civilization is at the core of our national heritage, and that’s what makes rodeo an important component in the creation of American popular culture. Allen, associate professor of history and American studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma, clearly explains our continuing interest in rodeo through his combined examination of its history and its cultural interpretation. Rodeos evolved from the curious townspeople who gathered to watch goings-on at the local ranches. As the plains cowboys began to disappear, the rodeo cowboy provided audiences with an image of the real thing. If the cowboys of old liked to drink, carouse and tear things up, today’s rodeo is serious business; its participants are organized, sometimes even well paid and refer to themselves as professional athletes.
By Michael Allen
After first considering the romanticized, mythical boatmen who were part of the folklore of the time, Allen (history, U. of Washington at Tacoma) draws on firsthand accounts to reveal the lonely, dangerous nature of the profession as well as the social and economic aspects of the rivermen’s lives, such as their cargoes, the river towns they visited, and the impact on their lives of the steamboat and advancing civilization.
By Michael Allen
In 1783, immediately following the Revolutionary War, thousands of American pioneers began to settle in the Trans-Appalachian West. Between 1783 and 1787, the Confederation Congress passed numerous laws to govern certain activities. This study of the creation of the first American western policy forms a microcosm through which to view the ongoing course of the American Revolution.
By Michael Allen and Mary L. Hanneman (eds.)
(orig., 1999, 2nd. edition, Pearson Publishing, 2007)
Frontiers of Western History is a clearly written and balanced reader for use in secondary and college-level Frontier History classes. The book features previously published and original works gathered from a wide cross-section of tranditional and “new” western historians, from Frederick Jackson Turner to Patty Limerick. While the book does not celebrate the “good old days” of western history, neither does it only repeat the tired leftist mantra of the “new” western historians. In sum, this is a book for those who seek a synthesis in their analysis of Western history.
