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Title: Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution by M. E. Bradford, Russell Kirk ISBN: 0-7006-0657-2 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Badly Documented, Flawed Premise
Comment: I have the original title, In Worthy Company, and while I agree with the author that the Founders were indeed worthy and gave us a Republic that has endured, the book's premise, that the Founders were Christians and that, by default, what they wrought is based on Christianity and the Bible, is flawed
The Founders were men of all faiths, Deists, Freemasons, and free thinkers. They were children of the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, well-versed in the classics, and fully aware that English Common Law was descended from Roman Law, Saxon Law, and the Danelaw, none of which were Bible or Christian based.
There is a growing revisionist movement that is trying to prove that the Constitution is Bible based, which is false, and this revisionism is flawed history, a type of 'make it up as you go' and this volume is, unfortunately, in that category. It is badly researched, not documented at all well, and some of it is blatantly inaccurate. The author's treatment of the War of the Revolution in the section on George Washington is semi-fiction.
For an accurate, well-researched account of the origins of American political thought, Bernard Bailyn is a much better and reliable historian.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent piece of scholarship.
Comment: The late M.E. Bradford devoted the latter part of his life to publicizing the truth about the American political tradition, no matter what it cost him. It cost him quite a lot, usually at the hands of people who didn't know quite why they were hostile to him; the culture didn't have a spot for a forthrightly reactionary scholar. (One finds an illustration of this last fact in the title of the current volume. Bradford's first edition, published during his lifetime, was called _A Worthy Company_. This one, which came out about a year after he died, has a title that is contrary to the core of his teaching, which was that America is not an experiment, but a place with a culture dating back to the early 17th century. The men of the 1780s, then, were not "founders." Ah, well.) Such is life.
Rating: 4
Summary: An erudite analysis on the framers and their intentions
Comment: The Founding Fathers, by the late Melvin Bradford, provides the reader with a most stunning and historically rich analysis on the otherwise unknown lives of the framers of the constitution. Men whose knowledge of history,philosophy, and law prepared a document for 13 colonies that was to have greater repercussions for the republic. A scholarly treatise of the first order, from one of the greats of American political thought.
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Title: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, American by Richard Brookhiser ISBN: 0684863316 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 12 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn ISBN: 0674443020 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Vindicating the Founders by Thomas G. West ISBN: 0847685179 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution by Forrest McDonald ISBN: 0700603115 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: November, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis ISBN: 0375705244 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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