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dmiessler.com | grep understanding: I Am, As of Today, Thoroughly Enthralled With American History

  • Tony · 1 year ago

    This is something I would like to study in depth as well. I started reading the Federalist Papers a couple years ago, but left off reading them. I'll have to begin again because they were very enlightening.


    I can, however, recommend 1776 by David McCullough. It is well regarded and made me appreciate the struggle of the revolutionary war much more. Audible has a good unabridged version read by the author.

  • Jon Robinson · 1 year ago

    nice. don't forget the anti-federalists. the guys that thought the constitution created a leviathan. http://mises.org/story/2335</p>

  • ncloud · 1 year ago

    Daniel that's an awesome endeavor! I would recommend "The Making of America" by W. Cleon Skousen -- it's a clause-by-clause exposition of the Constitution with in-depth quotes from the founding fathers. I would also recommend "The Founders' Constitution", a 6-volume set you can get on Amazon (for pretty cheap actually) that contains a ton of good source material.

  • Maxo · 1 year ago

    You absolutely mus read The People's History of the United States. I really just cannot stress how important reading this book is to understanding US history as of the introduction of the Europeans.

  • Brooks Garrett · 1 year ago

    Thanks for the link!

  • Mark Harris · 1 year ago

    So, you've been waving the 2nd amendment round without actually knowing how and why it came to be, huh? (J/K)


    Read Gore Vidal's essays as well. He examines a lot of 'commonly held beliefs" over the last 50 or so years and the historical background to them.