The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time by George C. Leef is all too eerily familiar — a veritable drama for our time as we suffer through the presidency of Joseph Biden and a Congress run by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Leef has a veritable pulse on the heartbeat […]
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As Ronald Reagan used to say, when repeatedly correcting misstatements, “here we go again!” And yes, I repeatedly hear the United States of America referred to as a democracy by both parroting ignorants as well as those who know or should know better. Just recently a letter to the editor in my local paper argued
This summer at least three editorials have appeared in my local, Georgia newspaper, the Macon Telegraph, about how the Electoral College process works and explaining why our Founding Fathers created that system for presidential elections. They were not always accurate. One writer, for example, wrote, “The framers… felt the common, everyday, average, eligible voter was
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A book review of Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow (2010) Excellent biographies of the Founding Fathers have been published in the last several decades. With these books, the nation seems to yearn for moral and political guidance from America’s founders — i.e., through their words, lives, and actions, as recounted in the pages of
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A book review of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2004) This book is the most comprehensive biography of Alexander Hamilton released in modern times. It tells the story well and is written in florid detail supported by a fount of scholarly research and previously undisclosed material from Hamilton’s voluminous writings. Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) was born
Alexander Hamilton — American patriot, financial genius, builder of the United States! Read More »
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger (2009) is a well written and eloquently narrated book that goes a long way to accomplish what it set out to do — to make James Monroe, not only the last Founding Father, but also the greatest of the
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