Larry Schweikert

How long did it take you to do the research?

When do you stop researching and start writing?

We found after the last edition of Patriots History of the United States came out in 2018 that Sentinel was not interested in doing a 20th anniversary edition or updating it in any way, and I felt an obligation to our readers to keep the book current.

It is in its 45th printing, and just last week I think we sold 1,700 copies, and it just continues to be a

a best-selling book all the time.

But since then, I've been researching stuff in case I ever had another edition.

And then last year, I decided, well, I'm going to write two more chapters that will bring everything up to 2025 and make them free available to anyone who emails me.

So if you're out there and you want the new chapter 23 and the new chapter 24 that go from 2018 to 2025,

email me at larry at wildworldhistory.com and I'll send you the free copies.

I think after, they'll be in PDFs, not the whole book.

I'll send you two, three PDFs with the new stuff in it.

And I think after we did our show on Thanksgiving, I probably sent out four or 500 of those requests.

So I had all this material that I'd been researching and I realized there's a lot of depth that needs to be developed here

And the 21st century in particular, I love historical irony, and the 21st century in particular just seems to be rife with historical irony.

For example, we start off with a virus, the Y2K bug that turned out not to be anything because the business people took it seriously, and we pretty much end the first quarter century in 21st

2020 to 2021, with another bug, the China virus.

Obama was supposed to be the transformative figure of the 21st century.

He's not transformative at all.

Trump is the one that has transformed the first quarter of the 21st century.

So the book is full of historical irony, and I would say I researched it off and on,