Angry Mobs and Founding Fathers: The Fight for Control of the American Revolution by Michael E. Newton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Not particularly enlightening or revealing, but this was certainly a good history read I got from Amazon free for the Kindle. Newton focuses on the desire of founding fathers to preserve government control for and by the wealthy and landed and fear the unpropertied masses and any movement with a large, democractic base. I doubt any ardent Tea Party advaocate has read this book.
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It basically spans from pre-Independence times to [b:The Age of Jackson|244659|The Age of Jackson|Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266504706s/244659.jpg|237040] when the United States setting into the cyclical nature of modern American politics in which the pendulum swings from liberal to conservative dealing with the constrasting views that that Newton very well sums up as:
"Liberty without government leads to anarchy while government without liberty leads to tyranny. Liberty and limited government must work together to promote “the perfect balance between liberty and power.”"
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