The Quotable Founding Fathers: A Treasury of 2,500 Wise and Witty Quotations from the Men and Women Who Created America - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1574886096 ISBN 13 : 9781574886092

Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2004

Synopsis

No group is quoted--and misquoted--more often than America's founders. When a political controversy heats up, the nation's speechwriters, politicians, reporters, editorial writers, and talking heads try to influence the debate by quoting their words. Year in and year out, teachers and political buffs look to their wisdom to illuminate the issues. How much easier it would be to find every key quote by the founders in a single source. The Quotable Founding Fathers, edited by Buckner F. Melton, Jr., provides just that source--a compilation of some 2,500 quotes summing up the wit and wisdom of the founders. While some of these quotations can be found in general quotation compilations such as Bartlett's, these volumes offer only a fraction of what's available. The Quotable Founding Fathers mines deeper into the founders' essays, diaries, letters, speeches, and sermons to extract all the nuggets that are significant to the history of the country-- and to the ongoing debate about the meaning of democracy in America.

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À propos de l'auteur

Buckner F. Melton, Jr., J.D., Ph.D., taught history at Duke University, served on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law, and is now Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Potomac Books Inc
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1574886096
• ISBN 13: 9781574886092
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 345
• Éditeur: Melton Jr. Buckner F.
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