The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding FathersSimon 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. |
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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 |
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