The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
by McClanahan, BrionFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-06-30
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Summary
Yet how much do you really know about the Founding Fathers? And how much of what you "know" is actually myth perpetuated by leftist history professors who dismiss the Founders as wealthy, racist, sexist, dead-white-males whose principles deserve to be as dead as they are? In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, Dr. Brion McClanahan sets the record straight. He provides a neat summary history of America's founding documents, profiles all the leading Founders (and some unjustly neglected ones), and shows how they have better answers to today's problems than our politicians do. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Brion McClanahan holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from the University of South Carolina. Born in Virginia, he attended high school in Delaware and received a B.A. in history from Salisbury University in Maryland. He lives with his wife and children near Phenix City, Alabama, just across the river from Columbus, Georgia.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Myths, Realities, and the Issues of the Founding Generation | |
| The Myths | p. 9 |
| 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 impending British invasion | |
| 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! | |
| A Conservative Revolution | p. 29 |
| 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" | |
| The Issues | p. 49 |
| 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! | |
| The Men The Big Six | |
| George Washington | p. 89 |
| The first American hero | |
| The Revolution | |
| Duty calls | |
| The last years | |
| The Washington effect | |
| Thomas Jefferson | p. 109 |
| Patriot | |
| Diplomat and secretary of state | |
| Retirement and vice president | |
| The presidency | |
| The Jeffersonian tradition | |
| John Adams | p. 127 |
| The Revolution | |
| "His rotundity" | |
| The insecure president | |
| Retirement | |
| James Madison | p. 141 |
| "Father of the Constitution" | |
| The Federal career | |
| The fourth president | |
| Death and legacy | |
| Alexander Hamilton | p. 157 |
| The Revolution | |
| The best government the country will permit | |
| Secretary of the Treasury | |
| Retirement and duel | |
| Legacy | |
| Benjamin Franklin | p. 173 |
| Cautious revolutionary | |
| The man in the fur cap | |
| The grandfather of the Republic | |
| The Forgotten Founders | |
| Samuel Adams | p. 187 |
| Firebrand | |
| Anti-Federalist | |
| Charles Carroll of Carrollton | p. 199 |
| Signer | |
| Mild Federalist | |
| George Clinton | p. 209 |
| Anti-Federalist governor | |
| Vice President Clinton | |
| A states' rights patriot | |
| John Dickinson | p. 219 |
| "Penman of the Revolution" | |
| The Convention | |
| Retirement | |
| Elbridge Gerry | p. 229 |
| The "self-serving" politician? | |
| Gerry vs. Mason | |
| John Hancock | p. 239 |
| "Treasonous" John Hancock | |
| The governor | |
| Patrick Henry | p. 249 |
| The Revolution | |
| The Constitution | |
| Red Hill | |
| Richard Henry Lee | p. 259 |
| Those who love liberty | |
| Virginian | |
| Nathaniel Macon | p. 267 |
| The Quid | |
| The Republican of Buck Spring | |
| Francis Marion | p. 275 |
| The Swamp Fox | |
| The politically incorrect soldier | |
| John Marshall | p. 285 |
| Chief Justice | |
| The architect of big government | |
| George Mason | p. 297 |
| The "retired" revolutionary | |
| "Objections to the Federal Constitution" | |
| Slavery | |
| Roger Sherman | p. 309 |
| The Atlas | |
| The Connecticut Compromise | |
| John Taylor of Caroline | p. 319 |
| Secessionist | |
| The pamphleteer | |
| Conclusion: What the Founding Fathers Would Do | p. 329 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 337 |
| Bibliography | p. 339 |
| Index | p. 349 |
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