The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers

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Simon and Schuster, 30 juin 2009 - 354 pages
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 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.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers is a vital guide to restoring a sane, sober, Constitutional sense of responsibility to today's public debates.
 

Table des matières

THE MYTHS
9
The Founding Fathers really believed everyone was equal
12
Slavery was a sin of the Southern founders
14
Paul Revere singlehandedly warned the Boston countryside of the impending British invasion
17
Benjamin Franklin had thirteen to eighty illegitimate children
19
Thomas Jefferson kept a concubine slave and fathered children with her
21
Washington had an affair with his neighbors wife
25
Alexander Hamilton had a gay lover
27
Cautious revolutionary
176
The man in the fur cap
179
The grandfather of the Republic
181
THE FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS
185
SAMUEL ADAMS
187
CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON
199
Signer
202
Mild Federalist
206

A CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION
29
The Declaration of Independence
33
Whos sovereign now?
36
Experience must be our only guide
39
The public mind is extremely uneasy at the proposed change of government
43
THE ISSUES
49
The states and the people are sovereign
54
A limited executive
58
Abolish the Fed
61
A presidents war?
65
Who said thats unconstitutional?
72
Give me my welfare
77
THE MEN
81
THE BIG SIX
87
GEORGE WASHINGTON
89
The first American hero
90
The Revolution
93
Duty calls
99
The last years
104
The Washington effect
105
THOMAS JEFFERSON
109
Diplomat and secretary of state
115
Retirement and vice president
118
The presidency
119
The Jeffersonian tradition
125
JOHN ADAMS
127
The Revolution
128
His rotundity
132
The insecure president
134
Retirement
137
JAMES MADISON
141
Father of the Constitution
143
The Federal career
147
The fourth president
150
Death and legacy
153
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
157
The Revolution
159
The best government the country will permit
161
Secretary of the Treasury
165
Retirement and duel
167
Legacy
169
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
173
GEORGE CLINTON
209
AntiFederalist governor
211
Vice President Clinton
214
A states rights patriot
216
JOHN DICKINSON
219
Penman of the Revolution
220
The Convention
224
ELBRIDGE GERRY
229
The selfserving politician?
232
Gerry vs Mason
237
JOHN HANCOCK
239
Treasonous John Hancock
240
The governor
245
PATRICK HENRY
249
The Revolution
250
The Constitution
253
Red Hill
255
RICHARD HENRY LEE
259
Those who love liberty
262
NATHANIEL MACON
267
The Quid
269
The Republican of Buck Spring
272
FRANCIS MARION
275
The Swamp Fox
279
The politically incorrect soldier
283
JOHN MARSHALL
285
The architect of big government
293
GEORGE MASON
297
The retired revolutionary
299
Objections to the Federal Constitution
302
Slavery
305
ROGER SHERMAN
309
The Atlas
311
The Connecticut Compromise
314
JOHN TAYLOR OF CAROLINE
319
Secessionist
321
The pamphleteer
322
WHAT THE FOUNDING FATHERS WOULD DO
329
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
337
BIBLIOGRAPHY
339
INDEX
349
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