The Politically Incorrect Guide to the American Revolution

Politically Incorrect Guides

by Larry Schweikart, Dave Dougherty

The truth about the American Revolution is under attack. Despite what you may have learned in school, it wasn't a rich slaveholder's war fought to "maintain white privilege." In fact, the War of Independence wasn't about maintaining any status quo—it was the world's first successful bottom-up revolution by the people, ushering in a new dawn of liberty that history had never seen before. But with left-wingers dominating the teaching of history, where can you go for the true story of the unprecedented events that made the United States the worlds greatest nation?

Now bestselling historian Larry Schweikart has teamed up with author Dave Dougherty to write the ground-breaking patriotic history you've always wanted to read about the foundation of our unique nation. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the American Revolution reve

Schweikart and Dougherty take on the left-wing myths—starting with the Marxist narrative of the Revolution in Howard Zinn's nearly ubiquitous A People's History of the United States —and uncover the truth about America's beginning.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Politics, Audiobook

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Sophie Gale]

Since the election I have tried to read writers with a different political viewpoint, but I have found that they are only interested in talking to their base and don't really give a rat's ass about talking to me. Which is rather sad. I knew we were off to a bad start on page 1 when they bashed Howard Zinn and other "Marxist historians who hate America." And then started telling me how Leftists feel about this and that. I've been a Lefty for some 50 years. I already know what I think about this and that. I think Edmund Burke was a pretty cool dude, even though I don't always agree with him and Thomas Paine was a twit, and just tell me what you think about the Revolutionary War. --Because they are writing about the war--battle after battle after battle and not talking much about the political revolution.

They are talking about what white men did in the war, okay? There are seven women listed by name in the index. I counted. There are actually eight women listed by name in the book: three of them are women historians who were resources for this book. Three were victims of atrocities and one was a seductive traitor. (Maybe there are nine--Molly Pitcher is semi-mythical, so I am not including her.) Indians are nameless, faceless marauders working for the British..no particular tribes, no particular leaders, and reason by wickedness for attacking the land-hungry colonists. Black people are all nameless slaves.

This could have been an interesting book, if they had cared. I visited New York and New Jersey when I was a kid, and I remember passing this and that battle site. I may go looking for other books about the battles. I will probably watch and sing along with "1776" for the umpteenth time. There are a bunch of books in the "Politically Incorrect Guide series," but I won't bother picking them up. Blech!

[Seth Meyers]

America is exceptional because it alone among all the countries in history was founded by a citizenry committed to private property, common law, free markets, and the Protestant religion.

Since these four marks are Biblical and Christian, then hatred toward America is usually opposition in some way to the Lord Jesus Christ.

[Michael Ruiz II]

This is the best book on the American Revolution I’ve ever read. It is comprehensive, in-depth and reveals the greatness of America’s founding!

[David]

With the increasing popularity of attacking the history of America's founding, reinterpreting historical events, and judging historical figures by today's "enlightened" standards, it is refreshing to read a book that presents the facts about how we gained our independence from England and became an independent country. This without having to point out the character faults (by today's standards) of many of our founding fathers because they did something that was acceptable and common in their time: they owned slaves. Some readers like to tally up how many blacks, women, and other favored groups of today are recognized for contributions to fighting and winning the war; and while there certainly were some and I have read about them, they were not the major contributors. The Politically Correct Guide to the American Revolution by Larry Schweikart explains why our revolution worked while those in other countries that tried to base their revolutions on ours failed. It presents our Founders as men of principles who risked their property and even their very lives to secure our freedoms that today are being squandered little by little by those who are focused on politically correct ways to look at our past. These are the men who's names are on the Declaration of Independence and other Founding Documents. Without them, we would have remained colonies for some indefinite time period subject to the whims of a King and a government far removed from our shores and never developed into the exceptional country that is America. This is a highly recommended read for anyone who really wants to understand our history as well as what we later did as our nation evolved that cost hundreds of thousands of lives to right the wrongs of the past.

[Jillian Powell]

This book has some good information that is unfortunately mixed with political opinions. The "Books THEY don't want you to read" portion of each chapter would take me right out of the book. There is references to current political opinions that don't serve a purpose when talking about what was happening pre 1776. Overall, it reads like it was written for someone of a politically conservative mindset of hating liberals. Why? This book could have been great if they could have just left their opinions out.

[Charles Nielsen]

This book was actually better than I expected. It was remarkably in depth for a book its length and makes its case intelligently and concisely. There’s several parts of the Revolution that I knew way too little about. It does occasionally devolve into political platitudes and pettiness but not as much as I expected:

The “books you’re not supposed to read” is one of my favorite parts of this series, of which this is the second that I’ve read.