
Fears of a Setting Sun
The Disillusionment of America's Founders
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Keith Sellon-Wright
Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In fact, most of them - including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson - came to deem America's constitutional experiment an utter failure that was unlikely to last beyond their own generation. Fears of a Setting Sun is the first book to tell the fascinating and too-little-known story of the founders' disillusionment.
As Dennis Rasmussen shows, the founders' pessimism had a variety of sources: Washington lost his faith in America's political system above all because of the rise of partisanship, Hamilton because he felt that the federal government was too weak, Adams because he believed that the people lacked civic virtue, and Jefferson because of sectional divisions laid bare by the spread of slavery. The one major founder who retained his faith in America's constitutional order to the end was James Madison, and the book also explores why he remained relatively optimistic when so many of his compatriots did not.
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Fun Read
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Fun and surprisingly inspiring book about the founding fathers and their changing views.
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A different perspective on the founders
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Hopeful
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There isn't much new here, other than emphasis on disagreement, rather than on agreement or accomplishment. But it's a great listen and good refresher on the founders' struggle to find common ideology and goals to animate their new creation. Highly recommended.
Relevant for our time
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Renewed my faith in the American experiment
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if our Founders couldn't agree but nevertheless worked toward compromise, who are any of us to think we are somehow better or wiser to demand a position of non compromise?
if you are anxious about our current political...
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1) Even the Founders became grumpy old men by the end.
2) Partisanship is as old as the Republic itself and has virtually always been an enemy of good sense.
3) The Constitution remains a living document. The epilogue says it very well. The founding generation did not think themselves more enlightened than those who would follow.
A worthy listen/read.
Quick Read to Round Out Knowledge of the Founders
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So, even at the beginning, our country looked to practically everyone for years like an aging, brain damaged fighter, just in it now for the money, staggering around the ring, not even seeing the knockout blow that's on its way. What's it feel like to realize all these smart men got it wrong? I feel much better. it turns out, that sense of doom may be well reasoned, but it could use an adjustment. it also turns out that I feel more motivated not less, when i see we're probably going to survive after all. Apocalyptic urgency feels healthy, but too much gravity can weigh you down.
Well supported by original sources, Rasmussen is all the more compelling for his willingness to explore the evidence that doesn't fit his general thrust.
There may be a cure for the endtime blues
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