umm, they forgot about “patriotism”…

Book review:

The Political Depravity of the Founding Fathers:

Studies in the History of The United States

by John Bach McMaster

New York: Noonday Press, division of Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964

Originally published as With The Fathers in 1896

McMaster writes with the perspective of 125 years ago, and it’s all too obvious. However, this is not a fatal problem.

The Political Depravity of the Founding Fathers is a largely chronological elaboration of the many political and self-interested motivations that were the controlling factors in the creation of the Constitution, the Monroe Doctrine, George Washington’s presidency, and a broad scope of public concerns during the 19th century.

McMaster has not written anything like “love ya” biographies of the so-called Founding Fathers.

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Book review: The Sea Runners

…it informs, it does not soar…

by Ivan Doig

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