[goldstategop]

May I also recommend Michael Medved's new autobiography, Right Turns to Freepers? Its been endorsed by the Who's Who of conservative illuminati from Rush Limbaugh to Ann Coulter.

[bayourod]

Does your moniker "LS" stand for Larry Schweikart?

[risk]

Some brief (if fun) anti-review material by a one "Ralph E. Luker" who doesn't like Schweikart: http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/5407.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=luker+schweikart+war takes us to http://www.historynewsnetwork.com/articles/1401.html - a fickle dialog on President Bush's impact on the muslim world beginning with a similarly named Schweikart essay.

Schweikart starts off with an intriguing reference to the "World Island."

Mackinder is a curious character: http://www.bartleby.com/73/2041.html

[Constitution Day]

I will check it out. BTTT.

[shield]

I'm goin' to buy it. I know I'll just love this book. I'm going buy several for other family members. God Bless You. ;o)

[shield]

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Larry Schweikart is a history professor at the University of Dayton.

Michael Allen is a professor of history and American studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma.

Product Description: For at least thirty years, high school and college students have been taught to be embarrassed by American history. Required readings have become skewed toward a relentless focus on our country’s darkest moments, from slavery to McCarthyism. As a result, many history books devote more space to Harriet Tubman than to Abraham Lincoln; more to My Lai than to the American Revolution; more to the internment of Japanese Americans than to the liberation of Europe in World War II.

Now, finally, there is an antidote to this biased approach to our history. Two veteran history professors have written a sweeping, well-researched book that puts the spotlight back on America’s role as a beacon of liberty to the rest of the world.

Schweikart and Allen are careful to tell their story straight, from Columbus’s voyage to the capture of Saddam Hussein. They do not ignore America’s mistakes through the years, but they put them back in their proper perspective. And they conclude that America’s place as a world leader derived largely from the virtues of our own leaders— the men and women who cleared the wilderness, abolished slavery, and rid the world of fascism and communism.

The authors write in a clear and enjoyable style that makes history a pleasure, not just for students but also for adults who want to learn what their teachers skipped over.

[Cincinatus]

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it. We need more history written by conservatives. I enjoyed Paul Johnson's A History of the American People, but it had a lot of minor, factual errors in it (e.g., confusing Albert Sidney Johnston with Jospeh Johnston.)

[Zechariah11]

I just ordered it from Amazon.

[Mike Fieschko]

It is already the winner of February's Lysander Spooner Award

Congrats. Used to shop at LFB when it was on Mercer Street, back in the Dark Ages.

[Bahbah]

This is a must have. Can't wait to read it. Very cool of you, LS.

[Howlin]

"Local Freeper Makes Good With Book" Ping!!!

It sounds really interesting, LS!!

[sneakers]

bump

[writer33]

Go Larry! Go Larry! Go Larry!

Good luck, sir. Keep up the good work!

Chris

[BibChr]

I have it on order; I think I'll get it in February, when another book is released. (Free shipping!)

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG

[Peach]

Wonderful news; will put it on my gift list.

[MEG33]

Congratulations! BUMP!

[NautiNurse]

800 pages! Wowser! Seriously, congrats for the Spooner Award, and best wishes for success.

[MattinNJ]

BTT

[mhking]

Congratulations!

Now if I can get off of my duff and finish mine...[g]

[jonestown]

Congratulations on the Spooner Award..
I just ran across this thread on a former Spooner winner..

Why Care What The Constitution Says?
Address:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115106/posts?page=47

Any comments?

And do you have any links to longer reviews of your new book?