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''A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror'' is a 2004 book on American history by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. Written from a conservative standpoint, it is a counterpoint to Howard Zinn's ''A People's History of the United States'' and asserts that the United States is an "overwhelmingly positive" force for good in the world. Schweikart said that he wrote it with Allen because he cannot find an American history textbook without leftist bias.〔(History News Network | Why It's Time for a Patriot's History of the United States )〕〔(History News Network | Interview with Larry Schweikart: Patriotic History )〕 ==Reception== After being recommended by talk-show host Glenn Beck, the book quickly rose to the top of the ''New York Times'' and Amazon.com bestseller lists.〔()〕 In a review of the Schweikart/Allen book in the conservative magazine ''National Review'', Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation wrote that "''A Patriot's History'' rejects the economic determinism of Beard and Zinn, and others who 'wrongly assume that people were (and are) incapable of acting outside of self-interest.'" Spalding continued: Reviewing the book in the journal ''The History Teacher'', David Hoogland Noon was strongly critical of it. According to Noon, the book's peculiar priorities – it "devotes a single paragraph to the Japanese internment while squandering an entire page with denunciations of liberal historians and ''their'' treatments of the subject" – as well as the omission of landmark works from its sources, suggest "ignorance of the basic parameters of actual historical scholarship". Moreover, according to Noon, "the authors make claims that are not even remotely endorsed by the footnoted sources". "Written for an audience of the previously converted," Noon concluded, "this book is hardly worth anyone else's time." Criticizing the book from a conservative perspective, Paul Gottfried in the ''The American Conservative'' characterized ''A Patriot's History'' as an example of neoconservative historiography: In his review of the book in the ''Wall Street Journal'', Brendan Miniter called a ''Patriot's History'' a "fluent account of America from the discovery of the Continent up to the present day." 〔Miniter, Brendan, Review of ''A Patriot's History of the United States'' by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen and ''The American Revelation'' by Neil Baldwin, May 19, 2005, page D8.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Patriot's History of the United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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