A Patriot's History of the United States

A Patriot's History of the United States
Author: Larry Schweikart
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 1373
Release: 2004-12-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101217782

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2021-09-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 398647949X

Orthodoxy G. K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." In it, Chesterton presents an original view of Christian religion. He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience.

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1860
Genre: Enslaved persons
ISBN:

This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.