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From the moment Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the White House until very late on Election Night 2016, media and pollsters kept insisting Trump wouldn't - COULDN'T - be president.
But for Larry Schweikart (one of a ragtag group of amateur politicos called "the Deplorables" who had been publishing shockingly accurate polls and predictions) and Joel Pollak (a Breitbart News senior editor following Trump on the campaign trail) Trump's win was a near certainty. Schweikart and Pollak watched the Trump campaign build a powerful coalition between working-class Americans from both parties; they saw the momentum that the mainstream media and pollsters completely missed; and now, in How Trump Won, they tell the whole incredible story: from the early poll predictions of "the Deplorables" to the campaign trail to Election Night.
Ever since the first colonists landed in the New World, Americans
have forged ahead in their quest to make good on promises of
capitalism and independence. American Entrepreneur vividly
illustrates the history of business in the United States from the
point of view of the enterprising men and women who made it happen.
Weaving stirring narrative with economic analysis, this historical
deep dive recounts the successes and failures of some of the most
iconic business people to grace our history books--from the
founding of our country to the present day. You'll learn about how
Eli Whitney changed the shape of the American business landscape;
how the Civil War impacted the economy, and how it was renewed by
the subsequent dominance of Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan; how
Asa Candler, W. K. Kellogg, Henry Ford, and J.C. Penney led the
rise of the consumer marketplace; and what Warren Buffett's,
Michael Milken's, and even Martha Stewart's experience in the "New
Economy" was like in the 1990s--and how that economy continues
today. It is an adventure to start a business, and the greatest
risk takers in that adventure are entrepreneurs. This is the epic
story of America's entrepreneurs and how they created the economy
we enjoy today.
Larry Schweikart has won wide acclaim for his number one New
York Times bestseller, A Patriot’s History of the
United States. Now, with A Patriot's History of Globalism,
Schweikart shows that globalism, or the attempt to form a one-world
government is nothing new. In the wake of Napoleon's defeat in
1814, the globalists of the day (mostly monarchs) sought to create
a governing arrangement for Europe. Within forty years, three of
the major participants were at war with each other. After World War
I, they tried again at Versailles, this time even more aggressively
changing boundaries of nations and moving populations. That attempt
only lasted twenty years before another major war between the
participants. Yet again, after World War II, globalists used the
threat of the atomic bomb to try to form an international
government with the United Nations. Most recently, the World
Economic Forum and World Health Organization are attempting to
minimize nationalities with global control of money and medicine.
But there are signs this tide has been reversed and is finally in
decline. A Patriot's History of Globalism is the gold standard text
for the history of globalism.
In Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United
States, Jim A. Kuypers guides readers on a journey through American
journalistic history, focusing on the warring notions of
objectivity and partisanship. Kuypers shows how the American
journalistic tradition grew from partisan roots and, with only a
brief period of objectivity in between, has returned to those roots
today. The book begins with an overview of newspapers during
Colonial times, explaining how those papers openly operated in an
expressly partisan way; he then moves through the Jacksonian era's
expansion of both the press and its partisan nature. After
detailing the role of the press during the War Between the States,
Kuypers demonstrates that it was the telegraph, not professional
sentiment, that kicked off the movement toward objective news
reporting. The conflict between partisanship and
professionalization/objectivity continued through the muckraking
years and through World War II, with newspapers in the 1950s often
being objective in their reporting even as their editorials leaned
to the right. This changed rapidly in the 1960s when newspaper
editorials shifted from right to left, and progressive advocacy
began to slowly erode objective content. Kuypers follows this trend
through the early 1980s, and then turns his attention to
demonstrating how new communication technologies have changed the
very nature of news writing and delivery. In the final chapters
covering the Bush and Obama presidencies, he traces the growth of
the progressive and partisan nature of the mainstream news, while
at the same time explores the rapid rise of alternative news
sources, some partisan, some objective, that are challenging the
dominance of the mainstream press. This book steps beyond a simple
charge-counter-charge of political bias in the news in that it
offers an argument that the press in America, except for a brief
period, was essentially partisan from its inception and has
returned with a vengeance to its original roots. The final argument
presented in the book is that this new development may actually be
healthy for American Democracy.
The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a
crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and
Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent
thinkers on political economy an increasingly overlooked field
wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each
other. Only through a restoration of political economy can we
reconnect economics to the human good. Economics as a discipline
deals with the production and distribution of goods and services.
Yet the study of economics can-indeed must be employed in our
striving for the best possible political order and way of life.
Economic thinkers and political actors need once again to consider
how the Constitution and basic principles of our government might
give direction and discipline to our thinking about economic
theories, and to the economic policies we choose to implement. The
contributors are experts in economic history, and the history of
economic ideas. They address basic themes of political economy,
theoretical and practical: from the relationship between natural
law and economics, to how our Founding Fathers approached
economics, to questions of banking and monetary policy. Their
insights will serve as trusty guides to future generations, as well
as to our own."
A historian debunks four-dozen PC myths about our nationas past.
Over the last forty years, history textbooks have become more and
more politically correct and distorted about our countryas past,
argues professor Larry Schweikart. The result, he says, is that
students graduate from high school and even college with twisted
beliefs about economics, foreign policy, war, religion, race
relations, and many other subjects.
As he did in his popular "A Patriotas History of the United
States," Professor Schweikart corrects liberal bias by
rediscovering facts that were once widely known. He challenges
distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight common myths. A
sample:
a[ The founders wanted to create a awall of separationa between
church and state
a[ Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he
needed black soldiers
a[ Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima to intimidate the
Soviets with aatomic diplomacya
a[ Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, was responsible for
ending the Cold War
Americaas past, though not perfect, is far more admirable than you
were probably taught.
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
reveals: Four key factors that applied only in America, making it
impossible to replicate the Revolution anywhere else Why it matters
that the Patriot ghting force was overwhelmingly Scotch-Irish The
key role of Protestantism: which denominations tended to become
Patriots, and which Tories How Americans were different from the
Europeans and English even at the outset of the Revolution How the
casualties of the deadliest war in American history are routinely
underreported How our Revolution became a model for hundreds of
others-that all failed 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.
The revised, 10th anniversary edition of the #1 "New York Times"
bestseller
Over the past decade, A Patriot's History of the United States has
become the definitive conservative history of our country,
correcting the biases of historians and other intellectuals who
downplay the greatness of America's patriots. Professors Schweikart
and Allen have now revised, updated, and expanded their book, which
covers America's long history with an appreciation for the values
that made this nation uniquely successful.
Groucho Marx once said that 80% of success was just showing up. In
a program with such lofty goals as sending a jet aircraft into
orbit, one might hope to define success in more demanding terms.
Yet in many ways, the National Aerospace Plane program, which
originated in the early 1980s with the intention of designing and
fabricating a jet aircraft that could fly fast enough to attain
orbital velocity, is considered a success by many of the
participants. This is a book on the hypersonic revolution that
contains case studies in the history of hypersonic technology. More
specifically that quest for the Orbital Jet
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The bestselling coauthor of "A Patriot's History of the United
States" examines some of the pivotal--yet mostly ignored--moments
that shaped our history.
Every schoolchild is taught the great turning points in American
history, such as Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11. But other
equally significant events have altered our destiny without being
understood--or even widely noticed.
Acclaimed conservative historian Larry Schweikart now takes an
in-depth look at seven such episodes--from Martin Van Buren's
creation of the first national political party to Dwight D.
Eisenhower's heart attack--and reveals the profound ways they have
shaped America. He also asks readers to consider what the Founding
Fathers would have said about these events and reminds us how
individual liberty, private enterprise, and small government have
made our country great.
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