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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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United States of America V. Rasmussen
Author: United States of America V. Oh
Author: United States of America V. Dellinger
Author: Fears of a Setting Sun
Author: Dennis C. RasmussenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069121106X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In fact, most of them—including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson—came to deem America’s constitutional experiment an utter failure that was unlikely to last beyond their own generation. Fears of a Setting Sun is the first book to tell the fascinating and too-little-known story of the founders’ disillusionment. As Dennis Rasmussen shows, the founders’ pessimism had a variety of sources: Washington lost his faith in America’s political system above all because of the rise of partisanship, Hamilton because he felt that the federal government was too weak, Adams because he believed that the people lacked civic virtue, and Jefferson because of sectional divisions laid bare by the spread of slavery. The one major founder who retained his faith in America’s constitutional order to the end was James Madison, and the book also explores why he remained relatively optimistic when so many of his compatriots did not. As much as Americans today may worry about their country’s future, Rasmussen reveals, the founders faced even graver problems and harbored even deeper misgivings. A vividly written account of a chapter of American history that has received too little attention, Fears of a Setting Sun will change the way that you look at the American founding, the Constitution, and indeed the United States itself.
United States of America V. Fountain
Author: United States of America V. Carrera
Author: United States of America V. Orzechowski
Author: United States of America V. Branly
Author: United States of America V. Estrada
Author: Civil War Settlers
Author: Anders Bo RasmussenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108845568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The first thorough analysis of Scandinavian Americans, examining citizenship, settler colonialism and whiteness in the Civil War era.