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Index
Praise
Praise
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Part I - MYTHS, REALITIES, AND THE ISSUES OF THE FOUNDING GENERATION
Chapter One - THE MYTHS
Myth: The Founding generation created a democracy
Myth: The Founding Fathers really believed everyone was equal
Myth: Slavery was a sin of the Southern founders
Myth: Paul Revere single-handedly warned the Boston countryside of the ...
Myth: Benjamin Franklin had thirteen to eighty illegitimate children!
Myth: Thomas Jefferson kept a concubine slave and fathered children with her!
Myth: Washington had an affair with his neighbor’s wife!
Myth: Alexander Hamilton had a gay lover!
Chapter Two - A CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION
The Declaration of Independence
Who’s sovereign now?
“Experience must be our only guide”
“The public mind . . .is extremely uneasy at the proposed change of government”
Chapter Three - THE ISSUES
Give me back my gun!
A godless society?
The states (and the people) are sovereign
A limited executive
Abolish the Fed!
A “president’s” war?
“No Taxation without Representation!”
Who said that’s unconstitutional?
John Adams is a war-mongering scoundrel!
Give me my welfare!
Part II - THE MEN
Chapter Four - GEORGE WASHINGTON
The first American hero
The Revolution
Duty calls
The last years
The Washington effect
Chapter Five - THOMAS JEFFERSON
Patriot
Diplomat and secretary of state
Retirement and vice president
The presidency
The Jeffersonian tradition
Chapter Six - JOHN ADAMS
The Revolution
“His rotundity”
The insecure president
Retirement
Chapter Seven - JAMES MADISON
“Father of the Constitution”
The Federal career
The fourth president
Death and legacy
Chapter Eight - ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The Revolution
The best government the country will permit
Secretary of the Treasury
Retirement and duel
Legacy
Chapter Nine - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Cautious revolutionary
The man in the fur cap
The grandfather of the Republic
Chapter Ten - SAMUEL ADAMS
Firebrand
Anti-Federalist
Chapter Eleven - CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON
Signer
Mild Federalist
Chapter Twelve - GEORGE CLINTON
Anti-Federalist governor
Vice President Clinton
A states’ rights patriot
Chapter Thirteen - JOHN DICKINSON
“Penman of the Revolution”
The Convention
Retirement
Chapter Fourteen - ELBRIDGE GERRY
The “self-serving” politician?
Gerry vs. Mason
Chapter Fifteen - JOHN HANCOCK
“Treasonous” John Hancock
The governor
Chapter Sixteen - PATRICK HENRY
The Revolution
The Constitution
Red Hill
Chapter Seventeen - RICHARD HENRY LEE
Those who love liberty
Virginian
Chapter Eighteen - NATHANIEL MACON
The Quid
The Republican of Buck Spring
Chapter Nineteen - FRANCIS MARION
The Swamp Fox
The politically incorrect soldier
Chapter Twenty - JOHN MARSHALL
Chief Justice
The architect of big government
Chapter Twenty-One - GEORGE MASON
The “retired” revolutionary
“Objections to the Federal Constitution”
Slavery
Chapter Twenty-Two - ROGER SHERMAN
The Atlas
The Connecticut Compromise
Chapter Twenty-Three - JOHN TAYLOR OF CAROLINE
Secessionist
The pamphleteer
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Copyright Page
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