The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible

Langue : anglais

Edité par Simon & Schuster, 2015

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In>The Jefferson Rule, historian David Sehat describes how everyone from liberals to conservatives, secessionists to unionists have sought out the Founding Fathers to defend their policies. Beginning with the debate between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton over the future of the nation, and continuing through the Civil War, the New Deal, the Reagan Revolution, and Obama and the Tea Party, many pols have asked, What would the Founders do? instead of What is the common good today? Recently both the Right and the Left have used the Founders to sort through such issues as voting rights, campaign finance, free speech, gun control, taxes, and war and peace. They have used an outdated context to make sense of contemporary concerns. This oversimplification obscures our real issues. From Jefferson to this very day we have looked to the eighteenth century to solve our problems, even though the Fathers themselves were a querulous and divided group who rarely agreed. Coming to terms with the past, Sehat suggests, would be the start of a productive debate. And in this account, which is by turns informative, colorful, and witty, he shows us why.…

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Titre
The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible
Auteur
Associate Of History David Sehat
Éditeur
Simon & Schuster
Année de publication
2015
État de l'article
Good
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Hardback
Langue
anglais
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1476779775
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781476779775

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