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"David Barton is, to be frank, a pretty lousy historian. Within the first 5 pages he makes several faulty allusions and plays fast and lose with historical fact. Thus far, I'd say I am less than impressed with this work." — Aug 20, 2012 06:30am
"David Barton is, to be frank, a pretty lousy historian. Within the first 5 pages he makes several faulty allusions and plays fast and lose with historical fact. Thus far, I'd say I am less than impressed with this work." — Aug 20, 2012 06:30am
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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“at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“For Madison, on the other hand, “a Public Debt is a Public curse,” and “in a Representative Government greater than in any other.”26”
― Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
― Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“The first symptom of the trouble appeared when Madison studied Hamilton’s proposal for the funding of the domestic debt. On the one hand, Hamilton’s recommendation looked straightforward: All citizens who owned government securities should be reimbursed at par—that is, the full value of the government’s original promise. But many original holders of the securities, mainly veterans of the American Revolution who had received them as pay for their service in the war, had then sold them at a fraction of their original value to speculators. What’s more, the release of Hamilton’s plan produced...”
― Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
― Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“I am not a Federalist,” he declared in 1789, “because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever.… If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
― Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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