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Loading... Vindicating the Founders : (edition 1997)by Thomas G. West (Author)Where to start? This book ends up being less about the Founding Fathers and more about the author's political viewpoints. All of the topics the author lays out are problematic, although I was found the pieces on women and the family to be the worst (correlation is not causation, let's just leave it at that). Throughout this book, I kept thinking of people who deny being racist/sexist/anti-poor etc. while also advocating for policies which specifically hurt those groups. Moreover, the Founders, flawed human beings that they were, deserve better than this. To be succinct: the author accomplished his purpose. The book is slim, but the arguments are fully-formed and well-evidenced. The procedure is to cite the major arguments against the integrity and motives of the primary founders (fairly done, in view of my own historical reading), and then refute them point by point. |
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The book is slim, but the arguments are fully-formed and well-evidenced.
The procedure is to cite the major arguments against the integrity and motives of the primary founders (fairly done, in view of my own historical reading), and then refute them point by point. ( )