The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers.
Title:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers.
Author:
McClanahan, Brion.
ISBN:
9781596985933
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (307 pages)
Series:
The Politically Incorrect Guides
Contents:
Praise -- Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Part I - MYTHS, REALITIES, AND THE ISSUES OF THE FOUNDING GENERATION -- Chapter One - THE MYTHS -- Myth: The Founding generation created a democracy -- Myth: The Founding Fathers really believed everyone was equal -- Myth: Slavery was a sin of the Southern founders -- Myth: Paul Revere single-handedly warned the Boston countryside of the ... -- Myth: Benjamin Franklin had thirteen to eighty illegitimate children! -- Myth: Thomas Jefferson kept a concubine slave and fathered children with her! -- Myth: Washington had an affair with his neighbor's wife! -- Myth: Alexander Hamilton had a gay lover! -- Chapter Two - A CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION -- The Declaration of Independence -- Who's sovereign now? -- "Experience must be our only guide" -- "The public mind . . .is extremely uneasy at the proposed change of government" -- Chapter Three - THE ISSUES -- Give me back my gun! -- A godless society? -- The states (and the people) are sovereign -- A limited executive -- Abolish the Fed! -- A "president's" war? -- "No Taxation without Representation!" -- Who said that's unconstitutional? -- John Adams is a war-mongering scoundrel! -- Give me my welfare! -- Part II - THE MEN -- Chapter Four - GEORGE WASHINGTON -- The first American hero -- The Revolution -- Duty calls -- The last years -- The Washington effect -- Chapter Five - THOMAS JEFFERSON -- Patriot -- Diplomat and secretary of state -- Retirement and vice president -- The presidency -- The Jeffersonian tradition -- Chapter Six - JOHN ADAMS -- The Revolution -- "His rotundity" -- The insecure president -- Retirement -- Chapter Seven - JAMES MADISON -- "Father of the Constitution" -- The Federal career -- The fourth president -- Death and legacy -- Chapter Eight - ALEXANDER HAMILTON -- The Revolution.
The best government the country will permit -- Secretary of the Treasury -- Retirement and duel -- Legacy -- Chapter Nine - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN -- Cautious revolutionary -- The man in the fur cap -- The grandfather of the Republic -- Chapter Ten - SAMUEL ADAMS -- Firebrand -- Anti-Federalist -- Chapter Eleven - CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON -- Signer -- Mild Federalist -- Chapter Twelve - GEORGE CLINTON -- Anti-Federalist governor -- Vice President Clinton -- A states' rights patriot -- Chapter Thirteen - JOHN DICKINSON -- "Penman of the Revolution" -- The Convention -- Retirement -- Chapter Fourteen - ELBRIDGE GERRY -- The "self-serving" politician? -- Gerry vs. Mason -- Chapter Fifteen - JOHN HANCOCK -- "Treasonous" John Hancock -- The governor -- Chapter Sixteen - PATRICK HENRY -- The Revolution -- The Constitution -- Red Hill -- Chapter Seventeen - RICHARD HENRY LEE -- Those who love liberty -- Virginian -- Chapter Eighteen - NATHANIEL MACON -- The Quid -- The Republican of Buck Spring -- Chapter Nineteen - FRANCIS MARION -- The Swamp Fox -- The politically incorrect soldier -- Chapter Twenty - JOHN MARSHALL -- Chief Justice -- The architect of big government -- Chapter Twenty-One - GEORGE MASON -- The "retired" revolutionary -- "Objections to the Federal Constitution" -- Slavery -- Chapter Twenty-Two - ROGER SHERMAN -- The Atlas -- The Connecticut Compromise -- Chapter Twenty-Three - JOHN TAYLOR OF CAROLINE -- Secessionist -- The pamphleteer -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Copyright Page.
Abstract:
The truth revealed--and PC myths shattered--about the Founding Fathers Tom Brokaw labeled the World War II generation the "Greatest Generation," but he was wrong. That honor belongs to the Founders--the men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of liberty and independence, and who established the United States. This was a generation without equal, and it deserves to be rescued from the politically correct textbooks, teachers, and professors who want to dismiss the Founders as a cadre of dead, white, sexist, slave-holding males. Now, a clear-sighted conservative historian, Dr. Brion McClanahan, does just that. In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, he profiles Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, and other important Founders; traces the key issues of the day and shows how they dealt with them; and in the process details the Founders' deep faith, commitment to the cause of independence, impeccable character, and visionary political ideals. Even better, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers proves that the Founders had a better understanding of the problems we face today than do our own hopelessly liberal and painfully self-serving members of Congress. McClanahan shows that if you want real and relevant insights into the issues of banking, war powers, executive authority, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, states' rights, gun control, judicial activism, trade, and taxes, you'd be better served reading the Founders than you would be watching congressional debates on C-SPAN or reading the New York Times. That makes The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers much more than simply a restoration of a bit of our patrimony, reconnecting us with the greatest political thinkers in our history--as urgently needed as that is. McClanahan shows
that it was from their debates--and their bedrock conservative principles--that we secured our liberty. He argues that only by understanding their principles will we be able to keep the freedom that Americans have cherished for generations. That makes this a vital guide to restoring a sane, sober, Constitutional sense of responsibility to today's public debates.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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