Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Adams drew from the War of 1812 the disconcerting conclusion that occasional wars are indispensable for the inculcation of civic virtue and hence long-term health of republican government. Adams to Rush, "Wars at times are as necessary for the preservation and perfection, the prosperity, Liberty, happiness, Virtue, & independence of Nations as Gales of wind to the Saluburity of the Atmosphere, or the agitations of the Ocean to prevent its stagnation and putrefaction." There is a definite echo here of Jefferson's famous claim that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical," as well well as Adam's own hope during the Revolution that "the Furnace of Affliction" would help to purify the nation, ridding it of its softness and selfishness." Adams, "We all regret or affect to regret War...There never was a Republick; no nor any other People, under whatever Government, that could maintain their Independence, much less grow and propser, without it." ... "What horrid Creatures we Men are," he mused, " that we cannont be virtuous without murdering one another." Chapter 9, page 139-140"-Dennis C. Rasmussen, Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
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By: Russell Shorto
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polygl… read more
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"If what made America great was its ingenious openness to different cultures, then the small triangle of land at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is the New World birthplace of that idea, the spot…"-Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
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2. The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
By: William Doyle
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Bar… read more
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3. The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
By: Neil Pasricha
4.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What's the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a Walmart executive, a New Yor… read more
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4. The Origins of Totalitarianism
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3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
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5. Caesar: Life of a Colossus
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4.22
Format: 583 pages, Hardcover
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"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
6. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
By: Bernard Bailyn
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Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, Fulfillment, as a Postscrip… read more
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7. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
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Format: 432 pages, ebook
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more
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"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
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8. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
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Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
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9. The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict
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3.95
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The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of th… read more
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10. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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4.26
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politi… read more
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"The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for a group to which we belong. Fear feeds anxiety and produces anger; hope, particularly in a poli…"-Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
11. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
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4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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13. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
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16. Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
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18. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
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19. Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
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Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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20. Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
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4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal ody… read more
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"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
