That's Not What They Meant! Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's Right Wing

Name: That's Not What They Meant! Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's Right Wing
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ISBN: 9781616146702

ISBN-10: 1616146702

ISBN-13: 9781616146702

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Austin, Phd Smock

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Many books published over the years present the Founding Fathers as a group of wise, philosophical statesmen who spoke about timeless issues with a unified voice. In the place of rigorous history, the authors substitute out-of-context proof texts, and in the place of real analysis they offer us a collective myth of the founding era. This volume examines dozens of these books, articles, speeches, and broadcasts to expose the deep flaws in their use of American history.

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 9/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 253
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Glenn Beck and Write This Book



Founderstein: How to Turn Six Dead White Guys into One Political Monster



The Fallacy of "Original Intent"



The Founders on Religion and Liberty



States' Rights/States' Wrongs: How the Right Hijacked Federalism



The Jeffersonian Myth and the Hamiltonian Bogeyman



Grover Norquist and the Tax Pledge versus Alexander Hamilton and Good Government



Courting Disaster: The Dumb Right-Wing Attack on the Federal Judiciary



Why America, the Constitution, and God Will (Probably) Survive


Appendixes



An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia




Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments




Correspondence between the Danbury Baptist Association




Federalist no. 10




Federalist no. 78




The National Bank Debate



Notes


Index