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A sweeping political, economic, and social history of the United States from 2000 to 2025. America’s 21st century began with a bug—and nearly ended with another. Having survived the Y2k scare, the United States, having ended the Soviet Empire, expected to settle down into a period of quiet, if uninspiring, growth. What followed was anything but calm. After the 9/11 attacks, Americans were pulled inexorably into a pair of wars in the Middle East that saw President George W. Bush’s popularity go from nearly universal to nearly the worst in history. Bush’s presidency was finished off by the “Subprime Mortgage Crisis,” which in part enabled the rise of a young Barack Obama to the presidency. Instead of uniting America, Obama divided it further as Congress descended into years of futility while the American working class collapsed and American industry left. In 2016, Donald Trump ran on the platform of restoring the American dream, but was hamstrung by “resist” and “lawfare,” two relatively new political strategies that limited his achievements. A second “bug,” COVID-19, struck America in Trump’s final year, building enough dissatisfaction that, under questionable circumstances, Joe Biden was elected. A dissatisfied America boomeranged to make Trump only the second president in history to win an election, lose it, then win it again. Throughout, America’s economy, technology, and social structure changed in volcanic ways.

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“In America in the 21st Century, Larry continues where he left off with Patriot’s History, detailing the War on Terror, the rise of the Democrat Party under Barack Obama and its subsequent fall. He chronicles with a critical, but unbiased eye, the era of ‘wokeness’ and its accompanying pathologies, the transformational realignment of the major political parties in the Trump era, and the Covid debacle. This book is thorough, informative, and enlightening, and most of all optimistic, reflecting Larry’s refreshingly positive spirit, as contrasted with so many other historians, political commentators, and so-called influencers. In these pages you’ll find both the truth and abundant evidence to believe that America is on a path to surpass its historically unparalleled greatness. This work is highly readable and is essential for your library, your friends, and your kids.” “In America in the 21st Century, Larry continues where he left off with Patriot’s History, detailing the War on Terror, the rise of the Democrat Party under Barack Obama and its subsequent fall. He chronicles with a critical, but unbiased eye, the era of ‘wokeness’ and its accompanying pathologies, the transformational realignment of the major political parties in the Trump era, and the Covid debacle. This book is thorough, informative, and enlightening, and most of all optimistic, reflecting Larry’s refreshingly positive spirit, as contrasted with so many other historians, political commentators, and so-called influencers. In these pages you’ll find both the truth and abundant evidence to believe that America is on a path to surpass its historically unparalleled greatness. This work is highly readable and is essential for your library, your friends, and your kids.” -- David Limbaugh, Author of <I>Guilty by Reason of Insanity</I> and <I>Jesus Is Risen</I>

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An Arizona native, Larry Schweikart received degrees from Arizona State in Political Science and History, and the University of California, Santa Barbara in history. He taught for thirty-one years at the University of Dayton. His New York Times #1 bestseller with Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, is in its forty-third printing. He has produced a documentary film, Rockin’ the Wall (2010) and written more than twenty-five books in his career. In 2017, he started the history curriculum company, the Wild World of History. He lives in Arizona with his wife, Dee.

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