ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Books > American Founding Fathers and Freedom in History
- Science and the Founding Fathers
Source: Amazon.com/W.W. Norton & Co.
Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Country: United States
- Learn the role of "science in the political thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison." As men of the Enlightenment, the Founding Fathers used scientific analogies and theorems when discussing politics. (pb, 368p., 1997, Amazon price: $12.76)
- The Wit & Wisdom of the Founding Fathers
Source: Amazon.com/Econo Press
Author: Paul M. Zall
Country: United States
- A book of great quotes from Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John
Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. (pb, 171p., 1998, Amazon price: $9.60)
- American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
Source: Amazon.com/A.A. Knopf
Author: Pauline Maier
Country: United States
- Maier's major contribution is her assertion that the Declaration grew more out of contemporary American experience than on European Enlightenment thought.
(hc, 352p., 1997, Amazon price: $19.25)
- The Federalist Papers
Source: Laissez Faire Books
Author: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Country: United States
E-mail: custsvc@laissezfaire.org
- Inexpensive edition of the papers that argued in support of the newly proposed Constitution -- some of the most important political opinion papers in history. Also see online e-text. (pb, 509p., Laissez Faire price: $6.95)
- Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution
Source: Amazon.com/Touchstone Books
Author: A.J. Langguth
Country: United States
- A "lively and energetic potrayal" of the men who started the American Revolution. Adams, Jefferson, Washington and all the other heavies are profiled in a book tying together all the loose ends into a cohesive historical narrative. (pb, Amazon price: $12.80)
- The Sacred Fire of Liberty
Source: Amazon.com/Cornell University Press
Author: Lance Banning
Country: United States
- Subtitled, "James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic." Introduces Madison as a misunderstood historical figure whose own strong reservations about federalism and government centralization were never far from the surface. (pb, 1996, Amazon price: $15.96)
- The Spirit of Freedom: Essays in American History
Source: Foundation for Economic Education/Amazon.com
Author: Burton W. Folsom, Jr. (Ed.)
Country: United States
- 23 provocative essays about many of the most glorious and notorious episodes in American history. Originally published in The Freeman. Authors include D.T. Amentano, Clarence B. Carson, John Chamberlain, David Crockett, Thomas DiLorenzo, Gary North, Edmund A. Opitz, Lawrence W. Reed and Hans F. Sennholz (Paperback, 1994, 212 p., Amazon price $8.25).
- Pocket Edition of Declaration of Independence and Constitution
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Preface by Roger Pilon
Country: United States
- Convenient pocket edition of America's two primary founding documents. Includes all constitutional amendments. 58 pages, $1, paper.
- Conceived in Liberty
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Country: United States
E-mail: mail@mises.org
- A complete history of the Colonial period of American history -- a period lost to students today, who are led to believe American history begins with the US Constitution. Four volumes, 1,668p., hc, $100.00 from the Ludwig von Mises Institute. (2000)
- The Founders' Constitution
Source: LIberty Fund/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Philip B. Kurland & Ralph Lerner (Eds.)
Country: United States
- Arguably the most important of all resources on the principles of the Framers of the American republic. If you want to know what the Constitution meant to those who wrote it, debated it, voted on it and used it, this is the place to look. Liberty Fund 2000, 5 paperback volumes, 3191 pp., $40.00 from Laissez Faire.
- All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
Source: Griffen/Amazon.com
Author: Henry Mayer
Country: United States
- The abolitionist leaders weren't all Lincoln-worshiping big government types. This book restores the real Garrison: An anarchist, pacifist, and secessionist of note. Audiobook, $88 from Amazon. (2/2000)
- America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800
Source: Amazon.com/William Morrow & Co.
Author: Bernard A. Weisberger
Country: United States
- A fascinating look into one of the most important elections in American history. "Weisberger provides a highly engaging, thoroughly well-written account of the Adams-Jefferson rivalry, which traded on both personality and ideology -- and, indeed, on markedly different visions of human nature." (352 pp., 2000, Amazon price: $20.80)
- Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character
Source: Amazon.com/St. Martin's Press
Author: Alyn Brodsky
Country: United States
- Though the White House's most recent occupant might make one skeptical of the notion, Cleveland was a Democratic president with character -- and friendly to freedom, too. His nonconsecutive presidencies were marked by peace and prosperity. Cleveland favored sound money and a limited role for the federal government -- nothing like today's "imperial presidency." (512 pp., 2000, $28)
- Pocket Constitution
Source: Cato Institute
Country: United States
- Cato's nifty little book -- it fits into a pocket, just as billed -- has the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. With a preface by Roger Pilon. $4.95.
- 'FDR's Folly'
Source: Crown/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Jim Powell
Country: United States
- At last, a book that tells the real story of FDR's dismissal of the Constitution, harmful economic policies, and heavy-handed policy-making. (Pub. 9/03; hardcover; 270 pp.)
- Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence
Source: Clarion Books/Amazon.com
Author: Dennis Brindell Fradin
Country: United States
- Learn more about the man Thomas Jefferson called "the man of the revolution." Written for students, but engaging for adults as well. (Pub. 4/98; paper; 198 pp.; Amazon price $12.60)
- James Madison and the Future of Limited Government
Source: The Cato Institute/Amazon.com
Author: John Samples
Country: United States
- "This book looks at the ways in which Madison's ideas might instruct and inform our era." Paperback, 224 pages, pub. 7/02. Amazon.com price $8.76.
- Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy
Source: Walker & Company/Amazon.com
Author: Andro Linklater
Country: United States
- Chronicling "the land survey of the American frontier which created a structure of landownership unique in history ..." (Pub. 12/02; 288 pp.; hardcover; Amazon price $18.20)
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