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This biography of Washington should not be overlooked. It covers a wealth of material in spite of its brevity. Author William Roscoe Thayer offers some interesting insights into Washington's character.Read the review »

Heinlein's Sci-Fi classic contains some interesting thoughts on governance that are worth looking at today ... and it's a lot of fun to read!Read the review »

Hayek's Road to Serfdom is every bit as relevant today as when it was first written. Read the review »

Glenn Beck's new novel is not normal fare for What Would The Founders Think, but worth a quick read.Read the review »

Karl Roves reflections on the Bush presidency while not always flattering to Republicans, show Bush as a man of honor, integrity and class. His book Courage and Consequence is part personal memoir and part attempt to set the record straight on George Bush.Read the review »

A new "old" book reviewed. Life of Washington is a concise biography/history/Sunday School curriculum. Read the review »

Jon Meacham's book, American Gospel, will make you think. He successfully argues that "public" religion is an integral ingredient in the American experiment.Read the review »

This book by Gordon S. Wood is a compilation of 8 essays that were previously published in articles, reviews or books by the author. These essays are neatly sandwiched between an introduction and an epilogue which the author uses to tie his central thesis together. This thesis is that the Founders were a unique elite and unwittingly designed a system that ultimately ensured that their like would be unlikely to arise again. According to Wood they were a class of self-made aristocrats that came about as a product of their time and situation. Read the review »

Looking back through the lens of history we tend to accept the sequence of events that gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as somehow inevitable.  Most Americans make little or no distinction between ratification of the Constitution …

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Like the drunk who wakes up in an unfamiliar place, we wonder, “How did we get here?” We appear to be in America, but the landscape is unfamiliar.

According to the US Census Bureau, in the third quarter of 2008, …

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