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Review:
Since the early 1980's, texts dealing with the history of the United States have presented that history in a manner that falls under either of two forms:

(1) Events that have led to the growth of the United States have been accomplished only by a conscious manipulation of and degradation of blacks, women, and Native Americans. and

(2) the same as (1) but to which must be added that these events have been filtered through the economic lenses of Marxist historians who would rather call Marx a capitalist than to say even one kind word about George Bush or any of his Republican forebears.

In A PATRIOT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Larry Schweikart and Michael Allan have admittedly tried to and have succeeded in finding a viable middle ground between a jingoistic extolling of the virtues of a United States that shines as a beacon to the rest of the world and a Marxist view as set forth by Howard Zinn in his A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES who sees only a long and lamentable trail of the broken shards of American history that even now remain painfully embedded in the collective backs of any American who is non-white or non-Euro-centered.

Schweikart and Allan do not gloss over the many injustices done to Native Americans and other minorities who have not only suffered the injustice of being denied the most basic rights of life and liberty, but have further been denied their rightful place in our history texts. The authors make it clear that such injustices as genocide, slavery, and economic disenfranchisement were all too often the common order of the day. What the Marxist Zinn in his text sets out to do is to state that such injustices were not only the order of the day for one day but were so for every day beginning with the first day that Columbus stepped forth on Hispanola. What Schweikart and Allan counter with is that as wrong as it was to claim in an earlier age that the United States could do no wrong as far as its treatment of Native Americans and blacks were concerned, it is equally wrong to claim its opposite. The growth of the United States as it actually occurred was a normal and predictable result given the age and the mindsets involved. They do not--as Zinn relentlessly does--attempt to foist the current politically correct dogma of the United States as inherently evil now and in all centuries past. Rather, they portray the slow growth of the American republic, warts and all, but without losing sight of the eyes on the prize. American history, then, they depict is the combination of both good and evil. It is only those who still see past and current events through the now defunct critical lens of a failed Marxist dogma who continually cry out that Stalinist Russia and Castro Cuba are vastly a more preferable paradise than the United States of Schweikart and Allan.

Conclusion: This is an important work that rights the wrongs done to our school children by Marxist textbooks, and should be present in every household.

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