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Author Austin, Michael, 1966-

Title That's not what they meant! : reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's right wing / Michael Austin ; [foreword by Ray Smock].

Publication Info. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2012.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.3 AUSTIN    Check Shelf
Description 253 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents How I learned to stop worrying about Glenn Beck and write this book -- Founderstein : how to turn six dead white guys into one political monster -- The fallacy of "original intent" -- The founders on religion and liberty -- States' rights/states' wrongs : how the right hijacked federalism -- The Jeffersonian myth and the Hamiltonian bogeyman -- Grover Norquest and the tax pledge versus Alexander Hamilton and good government -- Courting disaster : the dumb right-wing attack on the federal judiciary -- Why America, the constitution, and god will (probably) survive.
Subject Founding Fathers of the United States.
United States -- History -- 1783-1815.
United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy.
Added Title That is not what they meant!
ISBN 9781616146702 paperback
1616146702 paperback
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