The Failure of the Founding Fathers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Failure of the Founding Fathers write by Bruce ACKERMAN. This book was released on 2009-06-30. The Failure of the Founding Fathers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding of the early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective. Through close studies of two Supreme Court cases, Ackerman shows how the court integrated Federalist and Republican themes into the living Constitution of the early republic.
Fears of a Setting Sun
Fears of a Setting Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fears of a Setting Sun write by Dennis C. Rasmussen. This book was released on 2021-03-02. Fears of a Setting Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In fact, most of them—including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson—came to deem America’s constitutional experiment an utter failure that was unlikely to last beyond their own generation. Fears of a Setting Sun is the first book to tell the fascinating and too-little-known story of the founders’ disillusionment. As Dennis Rasmussen shows, the founders’ pessimism had a variety of sources: Washington lost his faith in America’s political system above all because of the rise of partisanship, Hamilton because he felt that the federal government was too weak, Adams because he believed that the people lacked civic virtue, and Jefferson because of sectional divisions laid bare by the spread of slavery. The one major founder who retained his faith in America’s constitutional order to the end was James Madison, and the book also explores why he remained relatively optimistic when so many of his compatriots did not. As much as Americans today may worry about their country’s future, Rasmussen reveals, the founders faced even graver problems and harbored even deeper misgivings. A vividly written account of a chapter of American history that has received too little attention, Fears of a Setting Sun will change the way that you look at the American founding, the Constitution, and indeed the United States itself.
The Founding Fathers
The Founding Fathers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Founding Fathers write by Richard B. Bernstein. This book was released on 2015. The Founding Fathers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This concise and elegant contribution to the Very Short Introduction series reintroduces the history that shaped the founding fathers, the history that they made, and what history has made of them. The book provides a context within which to explore the world of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, and Hamilton, as well as their complex and still-controversial achievements and legacies.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers write by Brion McClanahan. This book was released on 2009-06-30. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that such figures as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin laid the foundations of American civil liberty and had a better understanding of problems facing Americans today than the current U.S. Congress.
American Dialogue
American Dialogue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Dialogue write by Joseph J. Ellis. This book was released on 2018-10-16. American Dialogue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today. The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question "What would the Founding Fathers think?" He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today's political conflicts. He discusses Jefferson and the issue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. Through these juxtapositions--and in his hallmark dramatic and compelling narrative voice--Ellis illuminates the obstacles and pitfalls paralyzing contemporary discussions of these fundamentally important issues.
