That's Not What They Meant!
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That's Not What They Meant!

Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's Right Wing

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eBook - ePub

That's Not What They Meant!

Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's Right Wing

About this book

This book examines dozens of books, articles, speeches, and radio broadcasts by such figures as Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Larry Schweikart, and David Barton to expose the deep historical flaws in their use of America's founding history. In contrast to their misleading method of citing proof texts to serve a narrow agenda, Austin allows the Founding Fathers to speak for themselves, situating all quotations in the proper historical context. What emerges is a true historical picture of men who often disagreed with one another on such crucial issues as federal power, judicial review, and the separation of church and state. As Austin shows, the real legacy of the Founding Fathers to us is a political process: a system of disagreement, debate, and compromise that has kept democracy vibrant in America for more than two hundred years. Austin's carefully researched and rigorously arguedbook is essential reading for anyone seeking the accurate historical background to many of the today's hot-button political debates.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1. How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Glenn Beck and Write this Book
  9. Chapter 2. Founderstein: How to Turn Six Dead White Guys into one Political Monster
  10. Chapter 3. The Fallacy of ā€œOriginal Intentā€
  11. Chapter 4. The Founders on Religion and Liberty
  12. Chapter 5. Statesā€™ Rights/Statesā€™ Wrongs: How the Right Hijacked Federalism
  13. Chapter 6. The Jeffersonian Myth and the Hamiltonian Bogeyman
  14. Chapter 7. Grover Norquist and the Tax Pledge versus Alexander Hamilton and Good Government
  15. Chapter 8. Courting Disaster: The Dumb Right-Wing Attack on the Federal Judiciary
  16. Chapter 9. Why America, the Constitution, and God will (Probably) Survive
  17. Appendixes
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover