The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
The truth revealed—and PC myths shattered—about the Founding Fathers.

Tom Brokaw labeled the World War II generation the "Greatest Generation," but he was wrong. That honor belongs to the Founders—the men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of liberty and independence, and who established the United States. This was a generation without equal, and it deserves to be rescued from the politically correct textbooks, teachers, and professors who want to dismiss the Founders as a cadre of dead, white, sexist, slave-holding males.

Now, a clear-sighted conservative historian, Dr. Brion McClanahan, does just that. In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, he profiles Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, and other important Founders; traces the key issues of the day and shows how they dealt with them; and in the process details the Founders' deep faith, commitment to the cause of independence, impeccable character, and visionary political ideals.

Even better, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers proves that the Founders had a better understanding of the problems we face today than do our own members of Congress. McClanahan shows that if you want real and relevant insights into the issues of banking, war powers, executive authority, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, states' rights, gun control, judicial activism, trade, and taxes, you'd be better served reading the Founders than you would be watching congressional debates on C-SPAN or reading the New York Times.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers is a vital guide to restoring a sane, sober, Constitutional sense of responsibility to today's public debates.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
The truth revealed—and PC myths shattered—about the Founding Fathers.

Tom Brokaw labeled the World War II generation the "Greatest Generation," but he was wrong. That honor belongs to the Founders—the men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of liberty and independence, and who established the United States. This was a generation without equal, and it deserves to be rescued from the politically correct textbooks, teachers, and professors who want to dismiss the Founders as a cadre of dead, white, sexist, slave-holding males.

Now, a clear-sighted conservative historian, Dr. Brion McClanahan, does just that. In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, he profiles Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, and other important Founders; traces the key issues of the day and shows how they dealt with them; and in the process details the Founders' deep faith, commitment to the cause of independence, impeccable character, and visionary political ideals.

Even better, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers proves that the Founders had a better understanding of the problems we face today than do our own members of Congress. McClanahan shows that if you want real and relevant insights into the issues of banking, war powers, executive authority, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, states' rights, gun control, judicial activism, trade, and taxes, you'd be better served reading the Founders than you would be watching congressional debates on C-SPAN or reading the New York Times.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers is a vital guide to restoring a sane, sober, Constitutional sense of responsibility to today's public debates.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers

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Overview

The truth revealed—and PC myths shattered—about the Founding Fathers.

Tom Brokaw labeled the World War II generation the "Greatest Generation," but he was wrong. That honor belongs to the Founders—the men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of liberty and independence, and who established the United States. This was a generation without equal, and it deserves to be rescued from the politically correct textbooks, teachers, and professors who want to dismiss the Founders as a cadre of dead, white, sexist, slave-holding males.

Now, a clear-sighted conservative historian, Dr. Brion McClanahan, does just that. In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, he profiles Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, and other important Founders; traces the key issues of the day and shows how they dealt with them; and in the process details the Founders' deep faith, commitment to the cause of independence, impeccable character, and visionary political ideals.

Even better, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers proves that the Founders had a better understanding of the problems we face today than do our own members of Congress. McClanahan shows that if you want real and relevant insights into the issues of banking, war powers, executive authority, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, states' rights, gun control, judicial activism, trade, and taxes, you'd be better served reading the Founders than you would be watching congressional debates on C-SPAN or reading the New York Times.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers is a vital guide to restoring a sane, sober, Constitutional sense of responsibility to today's public debates.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596980921
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 06/30/2009
Series: The Politically Incorrect Guides
Pages: 354
Sales rank: 757,141
Product dimensions: 7.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

The list of Regnery authors reads like a "who's who" of conservative thought, action, and history.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I Myths, Realities, and the Issues of the Founding Generation

Chapter 1 The Myths 9

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 impending British invasion

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 2 A Conservative Revolution 29

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 3 The Issues 49

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 The Big Six

Chapter 4 George Washington 89

The first American hero

The Revolution

Duty calls

The last years

The Washington effect

Chapter 5 Thomas Jefferson 109

Patriot

Diplomat and secretary of state

Retirement and vice president

The presidency

The Jeffersonian tradition

Chapter 6 John Adams 127

The Revolution

"His rotundity"

The insecure president

Retirement

Chapter 7 James Madison 141

"Father of the Constitution"

The Federal career

The fourthpresident

Death and legacy

Chapter 8 Alexander Hamilton 157

The Revolution

The best government the country will permit

Secretary of the Treasury

Retirement and duel

Legacy

Chapter 9 Benjamin Franklin 173

Cautious revolutionary

The man in the fur cap

The grandfather of the Republic

The Forgotten Founders

Chapter 10 Samuel Adams 187

Firebrand

Anti-Federalist

Chapter 11 Charles Carroll of Carrollton 199

Signer

Mild Federalist

Chapter 12 George Clinton 209

Anti-Federalist governor

Vice President Clinton

A states' rights patriot

Chapter 13 John Dickinson 219

"Penman of the Revolution"

The Convention

Retirement

Chapter 14 Elbridge Gerry 229

The "self-serving" politician?

Gerry vs. Mason

Chapter 15 John Hancock 239

"Treasonous" John Hancock

The governor

Chapter 16 Patrick Henry 249

The Revolution

The Constitution

Red Hill

Chapter 17 Richard Henry Lee 259

Those who love liberty

Virginian

Chapter 18 Nathaniel Macon 267

The Quid

The Republican of Buck Spring

Chapter 19 Francis Marion 275

The Swamp Fox

The politically incorrect soldier

Chapter 20 John Marshall 285

Chief Justice

The architect of big government

Chapter 21 George Mason 297

The "retired" revolutionary

"Objections to the Federal Constitution"

Slavery

Chapter 22 Roger Sherman 309

The Atlas

The Connecticut Compromise

Chapter 23 John Taylor of Caroline 319

Secessionist

The pamphleteer

Conclusion: What the Founding Fathers Would Do 329

Acknowledgments 337

Bibliography 339

Index 349

What People are Saying About This

Dr. Kevin Gutzman

"Brion McClanahan's bang-up new book gives us the Founding Fathers as they really were, providing what intelligent readers of history want: the plain truth. In short, the men who made the USA deserve our admiration, and McClanahan's fascinating account shows just why."--(Dr. Kevin Gutzman, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution)

Dr. Thomas Woods

"Brion McClanahan does far more than merely rehabilitate the Founders. In his devastating and relentless presentation, he reminds us, on one issue after another, how utterly opposed they were to what has since become fashionable opinion. Here's the stuff our competent historians know but would rather you didn't."--(Dr. Thomas Woods, author of New York Times bestsellers Meltdown and The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History)

Dr. Clyde Wilson

"Our American Founding Fathers were the leaders in the creation of a unique and noble experiment in liberty and self-government. The passage of time, the misunderstandings of superficial commentators, and misrepresentations by those pushing agendas incompatible with the Founders' wisdom, have hidden and distorted our real history. Dr. Brion McClanahan, one of the ablest of younger historians, has gone a long way toward uncovering who the Founders were and what they really intended."--(Dr. Clyde Wilson, Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina and Editor of the John C. Calhoun Papers)

Dr. Tom DiLorenzo

"The American history profession ignores or denigrates our founding fathers because they were champions of liberty and feared Big Government. Brion McClanahan's Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers sets the record straight and revives the true history of these great men. Every student-and teacher-in America needs to read this book."--(Dr. Tom DiLorenzo, author of Hamilton's Curse)

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