A Patriot's History® of the Modern World, Vol. I: From America’s Exceptional Ascent to the Atomic Bomb: 1898-1945

<b>The bestselling historians turn their focus to America's role in the world since the end of World War II</b><br> <br>Schweikart, author of the number one <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>A Patriot's History of the United States</i>, and Dougherty take a critical look at America, from the postwar boom to her search for identity in the twenty-first century.<br> <br>The second volume of <i>A Patriot's History of the Modern World</i> picks up in 1945 with a world irrevocably altered by World War II and a powerful, victorious United States. But new foes and challenges soon arose: the growing sphere of Communist influence, hostile dictatorships and unreliable socialist allies, the emergence of China as an economic contender, and the threat of world Islamification.<br> <br>The book reestablishes the argument of American exceptionalism and the interplay of our democratic pillars - Judeo-Christian religious beliefs, free market capitalism, land ownership, and common law - around the world.<br> <br>Schweikart and Dougherty offer a fascinating conservative history of the last six decades.