[1][2] Larry Schweikart recounted to Steve Bannon that the book had respectable sales for several years after publication, but rocketed up the best seller charts after being recommended by talk-show host Glenn Beck, hitting #1 on the New York Times and Amazon.com bestseller lists.

According to Noon, the book's peculiar priorities – it "devotes a single paragraph to the Japanese internment while squandering an entire page with denunciations of liberal historians and their treatments of the subject" – as well as the omission of landmark works from its sources, suggest "ignorance of the basic parameters of actual historical scholarship".

[6] Criticizing the book from a conservative perspective, Paul Gottfried in The American Conservative characterized A Patriot's History as an example of neoconservative historiography: "Schweikart, a regular on Fox News, takes to task leftist historians who disparage America's past or glorify the expansion of public administration...

"[9] John Coleman reviewing the book in the Institute for Humane Studies, praised it as "thorough and easy to read" and stated: The packaging of the book would have benefited from editorial restraint in a few key areas, but overall, the work is a model of balance, and it stays true to the first principles outlined so clearly by the authors in the introduction defending, one might say, 'truth, justice, and the American way.'

In addition, for every fault in A Patriot's History, there are a thousand pleasant surprises and heartening reminders that underneath it all America remains a country of ideas, ideals, and optimism and no amount of revisionism can take that legacy away.