Larry Schweikart is a retired professor of history at the
University of Dayton. He has written more than twenty books on
banking and financial history, business history, and national
defense, including The Entrepreneurial Adventure,America's
Victories, 48 Liberal Lies About American History,Seven Events That
Made America America, and, with Dave Dougherty,A Patriot's History
of the Modern World. In 2017 he published How Trump Won with Joel
Pollak, and in 2019 his biography of Ronald Reagan, Reagan- The
American President, appeared. He lives in Chandler, Arizona with
his wife, Dee, and has one grown son, Adam.
Michael Allen was born and raised in Ellensburg, Washington, and
served as a Marine Corps artilleryman in Vietnam. He is a professor
emeritus of history at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and is
the author of the prize-winning Western Rivermen, 1763-1861 and
Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination, as well as several
other books on American history and the American West. He lives in
Ellensburg, and has three grown children, Jim, Davy, and Caroline.
“In A Patriot’s History of the United States, Larry Schweikart and
Michael Allen remind us what a few good individuals can do in just
a few short centuries… A fluid account of America from the
discovery of the Continent up to the present day.”
—Brandon Miniter, The Wall Street Journal
“No recent American history challenges the conventional wisdom of
academics as aggressively as Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s A
Patriot’s History of the United States.”
—Daniel J. Flynn, Front Page Magazine
“There are a thousand pleasant surprises and heartening reminders
that underneath it all America remains a country of ideas, ideals,
and optimism—and no amount of revisionism can take that legacy
away.”
—John Coleman, Humane Studies Review
“A welcome, refreshing, and solid contribution to relearning what
we have forgotten and remembering why this nation is good, and
worth defending.”
—Matthew Spalding, National Review
“Were the Puritans puritanical? Did the robber barons really rob
anyone? What made the Great Depression so great? Historian Larry
Schweikart sets the record straight.”
—Marvin Olasky
“Any reader of Schweikart and Allen’s book will see immediately
that it is a serious and substantive volume, based on a full
recognition of the important secondary sources written by our major
historians.”
—Ronald Radosh, Front Page Magazine
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