The Essential Wisdom of the Founding Fathers
Author : Carol Kelly-Gangi
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Founding Fathers of the United States
ISBN : 9781435168534
Author : Carol Kelly-Gangi
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Founding Fathers of the United States
ISBN : 9781435168534
Author : Randy Bell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0989542831
"The Myths of Our Founding Fathers and Their Constitution" helps us to understand the diversity of thought, the balancing of interests, and the fragility of the 118 Revolutionary and Constitutional Founders of this Republic. It enables us to reflect on the real intentions and human struggles of those Founders, and how they overcame their divisions to create a new whole: the United States of America. From this better understanding, we can more properly draw guidance from them in surmounting our own modern-day divisions.
Author : Edward Robert Nasello
Publisher : Proof Perfect
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2011-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780983189800
In Their Own Words: The Wisdom and Passion of Our Founding Fathers. A Book to Share with Your Children and Grandchildren. The words of the founding fathers are full of both wisdom and passion. From one generation of American's to the next, these words serve as an enduring reminder of the principles and values upon which the United States has been founded. In Their Own Words provides patriots of all ages the opportunity to share in the wisdom of the founders by exploring the words of some of the most celebrated founding fathers (George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine). Questions and commentary are also provided to prompt discussion about the inspired ideals that have paved the road for a nation founded on the blessings of liberty.
Author : Carol Kelly-Gangi
Publisher : Fall River Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 9781435126169
Author : Paul M. Zall
Publisher : Ecco Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"George Washington laughing? That the venerable Father of Our Country, the austere and unfailingly honest leader of historical record and legend, had a penchant for tall tales and crafty quips seems unthinkable to most Americans, even today. In The Wit & Wisdom of the Founding Fathers, historian and scholar Paul Zall shatters the sober image of American icons George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin to reveal - and celebrate - their natural bent for incisive, spirited humor." "With ample quotes from personal correspondence and private memoirs, Zall peers behind the staid and serious facade of our first three presidents and demonstrates how each strove to suppress his sense of mirth to maintain a dignified public reputation. By lifting the curtain on our Founding Fathers as they engage in practical jokes and regale friends with humorous stories, Zall opens a window on their personalities otherwise obscured by our preconceptions of them as larger-than-life historical figures. While Franklin's humor and wisdom is legendary thanks to his authorship of Poor Richard's Almanac, readers will be surprised to learn that Washington had a penchant for biting sarcasm; that Adams engaged in direct, colloquial, even vulgar, humor; and that Jefferson, our most cerebral president, enjoyed laughing at the absurdity of his own situation as leader of the nation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2007-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0470117923
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the Founding Fathers, their actions, and their intentions in writing the U.S. Constitution.
Author : Joshua Charles
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Legislators
ISBN : 9781938067594
"Liberty's Secrets exposes readers to the Founding Fathers as never before. Charles has cataloged all of the Founding Father's writings and in Liberty's Secrets provides an exposé of their profound yet glossed-over writings, delving into the subjects most important to maintaining a free society at a time when we most need to recover them. Liberty's Secrets equips those who already respect the Founders, as well as to destroy many of the cultural myths for those yearning for liberty"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Bill Adler
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2003-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1461625211
Arguably, no other revolution in history has enjoyed such a brilliant gallery of thinkers as the one that led to the founding of the United States. America’s Founding Fathers is centered on the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of the exemplary men who founded our nation. This book gathers together the founding fathers' best quotations on a variety of subjects including life, love, marriage, family, children, religion, patriotism, sacrifice, law, professionalism, medicine, public health, education, money, “modern” society, the Revolutionary War, humor, and death. Colleagues and rivals, friends and enemies, the eight founding fathers—Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Benjamin Rush, and Thomas Paine—here provide their views on subjects as relevant now as ever.
Author : James Madison
Publisher : Books of American Wisdom
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781557091512
Printed in two colors, this leatherette edition is a guide to the first ten amendments of the U.S.
Author : Frank Lambert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1400825539
How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency. Lambert recognizes that two sets of spiritual fathers defined the place of religion in early America: what Lambert calls the Planting Fathers, who brought Old World ideas and dreams of building a "City upon a Hill," and the Founding Fathers, who determined the constitutional arrangement of religion in the new republic. While the former proselytized the "one true faith," the latter emphasized religious freedom over religious purity. Lambert locates this shift in the mid-eighteenth century. In the wake of evangelical revival, immigration by new dissenters, and population expansion, there emerged a marketplace of religion characterized by sectarian competition, pluralism, and widened choice. During the American Revolution, dissenters found sympathetic lawmakers who favored separating church and state, and the free marketplace of religion gained legal status as the Founders began the daunting task of uniting thirteen disparate colonies. To avoid discord in an increasingly pluralistic and contentious society, the Founders left the religious arena free of government intervention save for the guarantee of free exercise for all. Religious people and groups were also free to seek political influence, ensuring that religion's place in America would always be a contested one, but never a state-regulated one. An engaging and highly readable account of early American history, this book shows how religious freedom came to be recognized not merely as toleration of dissent but as a natural right to be enjoyed by all Americans.