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Overview

Yet how much do you really know about the Founding Fathers? And how much of what you "know" is actually myth perpetuated by leftist history professors who dismiss the Founders as wealthy, racist, sexist, dead-white-males whose principles deserve to be as dead as they are? In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, Dr. Brion McClanahan sets the record straight. He provides a neat summary history of America's founding documents, profiles all the leading Founders (and some unjustly neglected ones), and shows how they have better answers to today's problems than our politicians do.

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Overview

Yet how much do you really know about the Founding Fathers? And how much of what you "know" is actually myth perpetuated by leftist history professors who dismiss the Founders as wealthy, racist, sexist, dead-white-males whose principles deserve to be as dead as they are? In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, Dr. Brion McClanahan sets the record straight. He provides a neat summary history of America's founding documents, profiles all the leading Founders (and some unjustly neglected ones), and shows how they have better answers to today's problems than our politicians do.

What People Are Saying

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. 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. 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)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781596980921
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 6/30/2009
  • Pages: 354
  • Sales rank: 204,699
  • Series: The Politically Incorrect Guides Series
  • Product dimensions: 7.20 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Brion McClanahan holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from the University of South Carolina. Born in Virginia, he attended high school in Delaware and received a B.A. in history from Salisbury University in Maryland. He lives with his wife and children near Phenix City, Alabama, just across the river from Columbus, Georgia.

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

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  • Posted December 27, 2011

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    Well written and comprehensible.

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  • Posted March 20, 2010

    Historical Truth

    This book should replace the current History Books in Public Schools.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 2009

    What every voter and politician should be required to read

    Learn the things they won't teach you in school and some of the things your elected officials hope you never learn about how our founding fathers felt the country should really be run. The book contains good references to additional books for those who want to dig deeper on certain topics. As a historical re-enactor and history buff I found excellent discussions and quotes I can use to engage the public that I encounterm who are too often misguieded or under educated on the policies and beliefs our country was founeded on.

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  • Posted September 26, 2009

    Finally honest history.

    This is an amazingly enlightening book reminding us of what our Founders really did and meant for us to follow. Some things I had forgotten and some I never knew. This book should be required reading in all of our schools for students to really understand who these people were and what it really meant to be here in the beginning of this great Nation of ours. These are true Patriots. It also shows us how little has changed in the "politics" involved in governing. Perhaps reading this book will light a torch illuminating our great Constitution once again and bringing us back to small government and states rights as it was and as it should be.

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  • Posted August 29, 2009

    Great reference book

    Very good companion book for teaching history. I think that school libraries should have it. I also give the same recommendation for the rest of the series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 29, 2009

    Nothing New

    Brion McClanahan clearly knows his stuff.
    Unfortunately he offers very little in the way of startling new information.
    Marketing P.I.G as a book that provides information that competent historians would rather you didn't know is a provocative yet very misleading claim. The book reads more like a bad version of Monarch notes.

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