A Patriots History.......

I love history, and I've always been especially fascinated with American History. Naturally, when I saw this book on the shelf, A Patriots History of the United States with it's bold red, white and blue cover, I was drawn to it. The word 'Patriot' got my attention. I wondered why a 'patriots' history would be any different from regular history? I read the foreword in which the author, Larry Schweikart claims that because liberals dominate our education system it is liberals who decide what goes into the history books our children learn from in school and they are construing history to suit their political agendas. One case in point he mentioned; of the many history books he and his co-author examined, most will have a whole chapter on Bill Clinton's virtues but none on Ronald Reagan, and only a paragraph (average)about Abraham Lincoln. He claims they also seek to minimize honorable virtues in history which means they marginalize 'good' and 'bad' and religion generally.

This was all very juicy and intriguing, so I bought it and have been reading it ever since.
The author Larry Schweikart is a professor of history at the University of Dayton and has written several history books including some on finance/banking history, and national defense. His co-author is a professor of history at a University of Washington in Tacoma.

I love history. I suppose it's true that if we can control what people understand about history, to some extent, we control the future. After all, ' if we do not learn from history, we are bound to repeat it.'