Founding Book Reviews Samples For Students

The book Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment by Eleanor Clift was published in the year 2003 by Wiley publishers. The book consists of a total number of eight subjects which are divided into eight chapters. The subjects are a collection of extra ordinary new series that look into the various odd instants in history. The author of the book is a woman who fights for rights of women in to have a voice in the politics arena of the United States. Eleanor Cliff highlights some of the major women who significantly fought for the liberty of women especially in the field of ...

Alexis de Tocqueville is regarded amongst the first thinkers of the 19th century that challenged the existing historical account about the founding of America. The prevailing account claimed that Americans’ regime and politics were, as a result of a revolutionary war but ended with the ratification of the Constitution. During that account, Tocqueville had paid a visit to the United States in 1831. At the same time, the citizens celebrated the” founding fathers” since they believed they contributed towards the development of the Americans’ culture and way of life. To illustrate this point, Timothy Pitkin said, “a more intimate knowledge and recollection of ...

The book is written in a memoir fashion for the events that took place in Benjamin Franklin’s life. It is a descriptive book on Benjamin Franklin’s character as well as how he was tormented with his life and the different scenarios that were presented to him in wake of revolt and other major issues facing the union. The book comprises of years that initiate from 1726 all the way to 1790 when he died. This book provides key insight to all the details that went into the life of one of the most famous founding fathers of the United ...

The book, "Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different" of 2006, is an essay collection, authored by the award-winning Gordon Wood from Brown University. He gives thoughtful discussions about the Founders and talks about their backgrounds, achievements, and even thoughts. Wood succeeds in supporting his argument that the Founders used their good characters in leadership and tells us why it has been hard for subsequent leaders to imitate which is “the growth of egalitarian democracy” (Wood, 29). “Why don’t we have such leaders today?” he asks (Wood, 4). Wood is bewildered by the fact that an equal society ...

The events that took place during the declaration of independence are a great treasure to Americans. Analyzing the book, Declaration: Nine Tumultuous Weeks can give insight on the events that associated with the war of American independence. Initially, this review highlights the author’s background and current occupation. The paper also evaluates the author’s argument while detailing the shortcomings and strengths for the book. The book’s thesis accounts for the struggles that characterized the war towards Americans independence.

William Hogeland presents the chronological order of activities, in the establishment of America as a nation. The writer highlights the ...

Book Review: A Slaveholder's Union

A Slaveholders' Union, written by legal scholar George William Van Cleve, presents an historical account of the forming of the Constitution and the early days of the United States of America through the context of slave policy and its subsequent politics. Van Cleve's book is an incredibly detailed and well-researched document that sheds new light on the motivations and true intentions of the founding fathers during the creation of the Constitution.

Van Cleve attempts to examine the politics of slavery throughout the Constitution and elsewhere in various forms. However, his broad thesis is that slavery was, despite many accounts ...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for Franklin’s Memoirs, the unfinished records of Franklin’s life, written between 1771 and 1790. The Autobiography was never published during the lifetime of Franklin. While it was several times published in original view in French and English, the most popular version is the one, edited by J.Bigelow. This edition contains both ready parts and the notions about the unexecuted portion of the Franklin’s plan (Franklin 53). The book consists of four parts that represent different periods of life of Benjamin Franklin. The purpose of the edited Autobiography ...

‘The River of Lost Footsteps’ is the title of a book written by Thant Myint-u. In this book, Myint-u analyzes the current economic, social and political situation in Burma. Myint –u, tries to create an understanding why there has been an unending civil war in Burma for last several decades since the country gained independence in the year 1948. The book also analyzes the various unsuccessful attempts that have been made by other foreign countries in an effort to bring a state of peace and democratic rule in Burma. In his book, Myint-u discusses the history of Burma in a bid to ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Book Review: Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic

Paisley et al.'s book Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic charts the development of both the upper and lower class people who settled in America during its infancy. According to the authors, the politics of America as it developed were constructed and determined by the actions and activities, as well as principles, of everyone in America, not just the elite. No matter what their background, individual Americans of all shapes and sizes and economic statuses determined the politics of this infant country. Accommodation and contestation were the primary weapons by which ...

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In the years following the Revolution, anti-slavery sentiment created an opportunity to rid the nation of what even many slaveholders considered a negative and destructive influence. The generally accepted view of this period is that the Constitutional Convention was overwhelmed by wealthy southern planters, anxious to preserve their wealth and way of life. In Race and Revolution, Professor Gary B. Nash examines the role played by northern authorities in eroding the move toward abolition. Nash also criticizes historians both past and present for ignoring this more complex perspective, choosing instead to divide the issue along neatly assigned lines ...

Book Review: William Penn and the Quaker Legacy

William Penn and the Quaker Legacy is a biography authored by John A. Moretta. First published in 2006 by Pearsons, the book consists of 288 pages and details the life of William Penn. Born in 1644, Penn was the son of the famous British hero, Sir William Penn. The younger Penn is most famous for having abandoned the Anglican Church and becoming a Quaker. He also secured a land grant from the king and founded Pennsylvania in 1681, at a young age of 35.

Penn’s life and his choices have been the topic of several biographies. However, Moretta follows a more holistic approach ...

Joseph J. Ellis Day and Time

The main idea of the book is that the early history of the new republic of the United States was not as trouble-free as we are sometimes led to believe. Ellis argues that in the popular imagination, the break from the British and the ideals of the American Revolution are seen as inevitable – almost part of what we might call America’s manifest destiny. However, he reveals that the unity of the early republic was a very fragile thing and that it almost broke up because of disagreements between the different states. Ellis further argues that the Union of the ...