Reviews
"As Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen proved in A Patriot's History of the United States , history is even more fascinating when authors have no ideological axe to grind. With this wonderful, provocative, challenging page-fanning ride through the modern world, Schweikart and co-author Dave Dougherty have done it again, informing us, entertaining us, and deliciously standing political correctness on its head-where it ought to be." -David Limbaugh, "As Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen proved in A Patriot's History of the United States , history is even more fascinating when authors have no ideological axe to grind. With this wonderful, provocative, challenging page-fanning ride through the modern world, Schweikart and co-author Dave Dougherty have done it again, informing us, entertaining us, and deliciously standing political correctness on its head--where it ought to be." -- David Limbaugh "Schweikart and Dougherty examine nearly 50 yearsof growing American political and military mastery from the Spanish-American War to WWII. Choosing a theme of Yankee exceptionalism (with four pillars: common law, Protestantism, free market capitalism, and private property), the authors (Schweikart is a professor of history at the University of Dayton and coauthored The Patriot's History Reader with Dougherty) make a convincing case for the series of trial-and-error achievements from Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations through Prohibition to the ultimate victory over Japan with the atomic bomb: "America's ascent to world power demonstrated that so long as the essence of American exceptionalism remained at the core of all efforts foreign and domestic, the likelihood of success was nearly guaranteed." There is a conservative slant on some issues, such as the criticism of FDR's New Deal, but the sections on Margaret Sanger's embrace of eugenics (less well known than her birth control advocacy) and the rise of the fascists in Europe are noteworthy in their detail. Sweeping in scope and, as the title indicates, unapologetically patriotic, this book honors theAmerican way at home and abroad with its firm emphasis on "human dignity and prosperity." -- Publishers Weekly, "As Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen proved in A Patriot's History of the United States , history is even more fascinating when authors have no ideological axe to grind. With this wonderful, provocative, challenging page-fanning ride through the modern world, Schweikart and co-author Dave Dougherty have done it again, informing us, entertaining us, and deliciously standing political correctness on its head-where it ought to be." - David Limbaugh "Schweikart and Dougherty examine nearly 50 years of growing American political and military mastery from the Spanish-American War to WWII. Choosing a theme of Yankee exceptionalism (with four pillars: common law, Protestantism, free market capitalism, and private property), the authors (Schweikart is a professor of history at the University of Dayton and coauthored The Patriot's History Reader with Dougherty) make a convincing case for the series of trial-and-error achievements from Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations through Prohibition to the ultimate victory over Japan with the atomic bomb: "America's ascent to world power demonstrated that so long as the essence of American exceptionalism remained at the core of all efforts foreign and domestic, the likelihood of success was nearly guaranteed." There is a conservative slant on some issues, such as the criticism of FDR's New Deal, but the sections on Margaret Sanger's embrace of eugenics (less well known than her birth control advocacy) and the rise of the fascists in Europe are noteworthy in their detail. Sweeping in scope and, as the title indicates, unapologetically patriotic, this book honors the American way at home and abroad with its firm emphasis on "human dignity and prosperity." - Publishers Weekly, "As Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen proved in A Patriot's History of the United States , history is even more fascinating when authors have no ideological axe to grind. With this wonderful, provocative, challenging page-fanning ride through the modern world, Schweikart and co-author Dave Dougherty have done it again, informing us, entertaining us, and deliciously standing political correctness on its head--where it ought to be." -- David Limbaugh "Schweikart and Dougherty examine nearly 50 years of growing American political and military mastery from the Spanish-American War to WWII. Choosing a theme of Yankee exceptionalism (with four pillars: common law, Protestantism, free market capitalism, and private property), the authors (Schweikart is a professor of history at the University of Dayton and coauthored The Patriot's History Reader with Dougherty) make a convincing case for the series of trial-and-error achievements from Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations through Prohibition to the ultimate victory over Japan with the atomic bomb: "America's ascent to world power demonstrated that so long as the essence of American exceptionalism remained at the core of all efforts foreign and domestic, the likelihood of success was nearly guaranteed." There is a conservative slant on some issues, such as the criticism of FDR's New Deal, but the sections on Margaret Sanger's embrace of eugenics (less well known than her birth control advocacy) and the rise of the fascists in Europe are noteworthy in their detail. Sweeping in scope and, as the title indicates, unapologetically patriotic, this book honors the American way at home and abroad with its firm emphasis on "human dignity and prosperity." -- Publishers Weekly
