Wednesday, June 29, 2011

"The Founding Fathers, Unzipped"

The July 4 & 11, 2001, issue of Newsweek Magazine has a terrific essay by Simon Schama. The headline on the website reads:

The Founding Fathers, Unzipped
The Constitution’s framers were flawed like today’s politicians, so it’s high time we stop embalming them in infallibility.


A featured line in the print article reads “John Adams would be horrified by how politicians like Palin and Bachmann mangle American History.”

Give this article a read. It’s not too long, and well worth your time.
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1 comment:

Harriet said...

Good article. I always admired Jefferson, but I would never vote for him after reading how he could not control his personal debt. If he wanted it, he bought it, whether or not he would be able to pay for it.

Meanwhile, a local editorial blames the whole economic fiasco on Bill Clinton (not his admnistration, him personally). You have to wonder why they put more responsibility on the Yale Law School graduate, as opposed to the MBA from Harvard, right?