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Shameless vanity: "Patriot's History of the Modern World" out today
self ^ | 10/11/2012 | LS

Posted on 10/11/2012 11:52:22 AM PDT by LS

My new book, with Dave Dougherty, A Patriot's History of the Modern World, from America's Exceptional Ascent to the Atomic Bomb, 1898-1945 is out today. This is really volume one of a two-volume set, on sale everywhere including links from www.patriotshistoryusa.com

Vol. 2 will be out next year, A Patriot's History of the Modern World, vol. 2, from the Cold War to (I hope) Obama's Removal.

Patriot's History of the Modern World


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: america; history; worldwarii
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1 posted on 10/11/2012 11:52:29 AM PDT by LS
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To: LS

excellent! I have enjoyed your other works.

will need to pick this up.


2 posted on 10/11/2012 11:54:09 AM PDT by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: QualityMan
Thanks. This is a pretty sweeping work. A couple of reviews on the Amazon page:

“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

3 posted on 10/11/2012 11:57:02 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Congrats man. Will check it out.


4 posted on 10/11/2012 11:59:49 AM PDT by Obadiah (The corrupt MSM is the enemy of the American people.)
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To: LS

Who are the people on the cover of “American Entrepreneur” who are not Steve Jobs?


5 posted on 10/11/2012 12:04:42 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: LS

Thanks for the heads up LS! I will put it on my list. Good luck!


6 posted on 10/11/2012 12:05:52 PM PDT by Batman11 (We came for the chicken sandwiches and a Sweet Tea Party broke out!)
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To: LS
Do you have a schedule for your world wide book tour?
7 posted on 10/11/2012 12:05:58 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: LS

Bigtime congrats, LS!


8 posted on 10/11/2012 12:20:14 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: LS

Congratulations! What’s a guy gotta do to get his copy autographed by the author? :)


9 posted on 10/11/2012 12:20:28 PM PDT by TonyInOhio ("But, the Obama has no clothes!")
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To: LS

Congratulations.


10 posted on 10/11/2012 12:21:17 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: LS

Congratulations and best wishes!


11 posted on 10/11/2012 12:28:18 PM PDT by cyn
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To: LS

Is it available for Kindle or other e-book devices?


12 posted on 10/11/2012 12:30:23 PM PDT by Hoosier Catholic Momma (How long till my Arkansas drawl fades into the twang of southeast Ohio?)
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To: LS

Congratulations!


13 posted on 10/11/2012 12:31:34 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Why not eliminate the middle man and have whoever feeds Obama his lines debate Romney directly?")
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To: LS

Thanks kindly for the heads-up. I keep a copy of PHOTUS in my office library and refer to it often. Great work.


14 posted on 10/11/2012 12:36:22 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: Hoosier Catholic Momma
Is it available for Kindle or other e-book devices?

Barnes & Noble has a Nook version listed. Not on the Kindle yet, but Larry's other books have Kindle versions.

I just downloaded the Nook sample. It claims it is 35 pages, but that might just be 35 Nook page with very large type.

15 posted on 10/11/2012 1:00:07 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

This is as good.


16 posted on 10/11/2012 1:03:21 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: DuncanWaring

Robert Fulton and John D. Rockefeller


17 posted on 10/11/2012 1:05:36 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: KarlInOhio

LOL> Little Rock Arkansas this weekend, Hillsdale MI on Oct. 22, Heritage Foundation D.C. Oct. 29


18 posted on 10/11/2012 1:07:04 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: Hoosier Catholic Momma
Yes, but the link isn't showing on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-History-Modern-World-Exceptional/dp/1595230890/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349986429&sr=8-1&keywords=a+patriot%27s+history+of+the+modern+world

19 posted on 10/11/2012 1:42:17 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: KarlInOhio

I have the Kindle Touch. I have downloaded the Patriot’s History of the United States onto it from Audible (and I have a hard copy as well).


20 posted on 10/11/2012 3:41:03 PM PDT by Hoosier Catholic Momma (How long till my Arkansas drawl fades into the twang of southeast Ohio?)
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