Forgotten Founder Drunken Prophet
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Forgotten Founder Drunken Prophet
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Author : Bill Kauffman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-09-19
Forgotten Founder Drunken Prophet written by Bill Kauffman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us—if he is known at all—as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer of 1787. In Bill Kauffman's rollicking account of his turbulent life and times, Martin is still something of a fitfully charming reprobate, but he is also a prophetic voice, warning his heedless contemporaries and his amnesiac posterity that the Constitution, whatever its devisers' intentions, would come to be used as a blueprint for centralized government and a militaristic foreign policy. In Martin's view, the Constitution was the tool of a counterrevolution aimed at reducing the states to ciphers and at fortifying a national government whose powers to tax and coerce would be frightening. Martin delivered the most forceful and sustained attack on the Constitution ever levied—a critique that modern readers might find jarringly relevant. And Martin's post-convention career, though clouded by drink and scandal, found him as defense counsel in two of the great trials of the age: the Senate trial of the impeached Supreme Court justice Samuel Chase and the treason trial of his friend Aaron Burr. Kauffman's Luther Martin is a brilliant and passionate polemicist, a stubborn and admirable defender of a decentralized republic who fights for the principles of 1776 all the way to the last ditch and last drop. In remembering this forgotten founder, we remember also the principles that once animated many of the earliest—and many later—American patriots.
America S Forgotten Founders Second Edition
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Author : Gary L. Gregg
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-05-30
America S Forgotten Founders Second Edition written by Gary L. Gregg and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-30 with History categories.
Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders. Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (and women) who made prodigious contributions to the American founding have been all but forgotten. America's Forgotten Founders corrects this injustice. Editors Gary L. Gregg II and Mark David Hall surveyed forty-five top scholars in history, political science, and law to produce the first-ever ranking of the most neglected contributors to the American Revolution and our constitutional order. This unique book features engaging short biographies of the top ten most important Founders whose contributions are overlooked today: James Wilson, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, John Jay, Roger Sherman, John Marshall, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and John Witherspoon. Part of the "Lives of the Founders" series, America's Forgotten Founders reshapes our understanding of America's founding generation.
Written Out Of History
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Author : Mike Lee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-05-30
Written Out Of History written by Mike Lee and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-30 with History categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Some of America’s most important founders have been erased from our history books. In the fight to restore the true meaning of the Constitution, their stories must be told. In the earliest days of our nation, a handful of unsung heroes—including women, slaves, and an Iroquois chief—made crucial contributions to our republic. They pioneered the ideas that led to the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, and the abolition of slavery. Yet, their faces haven’t been printed on our currency or carved into any cliffs. Instead, they were marginalized, silenced, or forgotten—sometimes by an accident of history, sometimes by design. In the thick of the debates over the Constitution, some founders warned about the dangers of giving too much power to the central government. Though they did not win every battle, these anti-Federalists and their allies managed to insert a system of checks and balances to protect the people from an intrusive federal government. Other forgotten figures were not politicians themselves, but by their thoughts and actions influenced America’s story. Yet successive generations have forgotten their message, leading to the creation of a vast federal bureaucracy that our founders would not recognize and did not want. Senator Mike Lee, one of the most consistent and impassioned opponents of an abusive federal government, tells the story of liberty’s forgotten heroes. In these pages, you’ll learn the true stories of founders such as... • Aaron Burr who is depicted in the popular musical Hamilton and in history books as a villain, but in reality was a far more complicated figure who fought the abuse of executive power. • Mercy Otis Warren, one of the most prominent female writers in the Revolution and a protégé of John Adams, who engaged in vigorous debates against the encroachment of federal power and ultimately broke with Adams over her fears of the Constitution. • Canasatego, an Iroquois chief whose words taught Benjamin Franklin the basic principles behind the separation of powers. The popular movement that swept Republicans into power in 2010 and 2016 was led by Americans who rediscovered the majesty of the Constitution and knew the stories of Hamilton, Madison, and Washington. But we should also know the names of the contrarians who argued against them and who have been written out of history. If we knew of the heroic fights of these lost founders, we’d never have ended up with a government too big, too powerful, and too unresponsive to its citizens. The good news is that it’s not too late to rememberand to return to our first principles. Restoring the memory of these lost individuals will strike a crippling blow against big government.
Books I Have Loved
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Author : Carl Wells
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2023-02-08
Books I Have Loved written by Carl Wells and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-08 with Philosophy categories.
Some oldthinkers still read books . . . Carl Wells has been one of them. Some of those books have made a huge impression on him. Books I Have Loved gives us Wells' response to 46 books (by 41 authors) encountered through a longish life mostly spent (misspent?) reading books. His only regret is that he didn't spend more time reading.
America First
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Author : Bill Kauffman
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2016-09-06
America First written by Bill Kauffman and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Political Science categories.
America First! is a rarity among political books: first published in 1995, it remains more timely, relevant, and even urgent than ever. Lively and iconoclastic, it explores the rich heritage, the turbulent present, and the possible future of the political and cultural tendency known as "America First." Bill Kauffman, a columnist for the American Conservative, examines the nineteenth-century underpinnings and twentieth-century eruptions of American isolationism and nationalism, which are the fault lines along which the politics of the twenty-first century are cleaving. In a new preface and epilogue written especially for this reissue, he traces the evolution of America First sentiment over the past twenty years: from its near-eclipse in the war hysteria of the George W. Bush administration to its revival in 2016 with the populist campaigns of Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders.
First Things
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
First Things written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
The Freeman
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Freeman written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Libertarianism categories.
Library Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Library Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Libraries categories.
Arkansas Law Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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Reports Of Cases Argued And Determined In The Supreme Court Of New Jersey
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Author : New Jersey. Supreme Court
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Reports Of Cases Argued And Determined In The Supreme Court Of New Jersey written by New Jersey. Supreme Court and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.