{"product_id":"9781621576259","title":"The Politically Incorrect Guide to the American Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Politically Incorrect Guide to the American Revolution reve\u003c\/i\u003e als:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eFour key factors that applied only in America, making it impossible to replicate the Revolution anywhere else \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhy it matters that the Patriot ghting force was overwhelmingly Scotch-Irish \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe key role of Protestantism: which denominations tended to become Patriots, and which Tories\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow Americans were different from the Europeans and English even at the outset of the Revolution \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow the casualties of the deadliest war in American history are routinely underreported \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow our Revolution became a model for hundreds of others—that all failed \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchweikart and Dougherty take on the left-wing myths—starting with the Marxist narrative of the Revolution in Howard Zinn's nearly ubiquitous \u003ci\u003eA People's History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e —and uncover the truth about America's beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Regnery Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036821602544,"sku":"9781621576259","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781621576259_p0.jpg?v=1763858172","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781621576259","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}