Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders

by Dennis C Rasmussen and Dennis C. Rasmussen

Book Overview

The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691241414
• ISBN13: 9780691241418
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"