Summary: What Would the Founders Do? E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The must-read summary of Richard Brookhiser's book: “What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers”.

This complete summary of "What Would the Founders Do?" by Richard Brookhiser, a renowned American journalist and historian, presents his examination of how America’s founding fathers would deal with the controversial issues facing the nation today.

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To learn more, read "What Would the Founders Do?" and discover how the founding fathers and creators of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence might have dealt with 21st-century political issues.

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Book Presentation: What Would the Founders Do? by Richard Brookhiser

Book Abstract

What Would the Founders Do? is an exploration of how America’s Founding Fathers would handle the most controversial issues facing the nation today. What would the Founders do about immigration? What would they make of a national religion? What about gun control, the death penalty and the global spread of democracy? Examining a host of current issues, Brookhiser reveals why we still turn to the Founders in moments of struggle, farce, or disaster—just as Lincoln, FDR, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bill Clinton have done before us.

About the Author

Richard Brookhiser is the senior editor at the National Review and a frequent contributor to the New York Observer, The New York Times Book Review and American Heritage. He has written several books covering the period of the American Revolution, including Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington.

Summary of What Would the Founders Do? (Richard Brookhiser)

Introduction

The views and ideas of the Founding Fathers still loom large in our national psyche. Take any contemporary subject, no matter how serious or trivial, and citizens will want to know what men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Paine would have thought on such matters.

In actuality, the Founders were a diverse group and they frequently argued among themselves. Thus, their opinions on any range of topics – from gun control to freedom of the press – are hardly homogeneous. Nevertheless, these giants of the 18th century did approach political questions with a common frame of reference, which include principles and practices that can continue to guide a self-governing people as we confront 21st century challenges.