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A patriot's history of the United States : from Columbus's Great Discovery to America's age of entitlement / Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen.

by Schweikart, Larry, author.

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New York : Sentinel, 2019.

United States -- History -- Textbooks.

9781595231154 (paperback) :

1595231153 (paperback) :

xxii, 984 pages ; 24 cm

15th anniversary edition, revised and updated paperback edition.

The city on the hill, 1492-1707 -- Colonial adolescence, 1707-63 -- Colonies no more, 1763-83 -- A nation of law, 1776-89 -- Small republic, big shoulders, 1789-1815 -- The first era of big government, 1815-36 -- Red foxes and bear flags, 1836-48 -- The house dividing, 1848-60 -- The crisis of the Union, 1860-65 -- Ideals and realities of Reconstruction, 1865-76 -- Lighting out for the territories, 1861-90 -- Sinews of democracy, 1876-96 -- "Building best, building greatly," 1896-1912 -- War, Wilson, and internationalism, 1912-20 -- The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash, 1920-32 -- Enlarging the public sector, 1932-40 : The New Deal : immediate goals, unintended results -- Democracy's finest hour, 1941-45 -- America's "happy days," 1946-59 -- The age of upheaval, 1960-74 -- Retreat and resurrection, 1974-88 -- The moral crossroads, 1989-2000 -- Decline and restoration : the twenty-first century.

In this revised and updated fifteenth-anniversary edition, readers will learn the truth behind America's discovery, founding, and development, with an emphasis on the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful.

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