American historian
Those who want to get rid of the Electoral College might reconsider their views after scanning Richard Brookhiser’s recent history lesson on the topic in American History magazine. Is the…
Richard Brookhiser has spent much of his time in recent years documenting the exploits of the American Founders. So it should be no great surprise that those towering figures still…
Two hundred years after he occupied the White House, James Madison is attracting quite a bit of attention from biographers who write for more than just an academic audience. Having…
Richard Brookhiser has spent much of his recent years chronicling the Founders — individually and as a group. His latest subject is James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution” and…
Richard Brookhiser puts the “father of the Constitution” under the microscope for his latest book. In a National Review Online excerpt of James Madison, Brookhiser describes the future president’s objections…
Richard Brookhiser reacts to the president’s Tucson speech for National Review Online: Walter Dean Burnham described the president as the pontifex maximus of the American civil religion ? the king…
Even if you?ve long realized that the famous ?cherry tree? story was a myth, your impression of our first president is likely based on a standard historical narrative that paints…
Given a chance to change our current system of government, the American Founders would: follow the written words in the Constitution, cut federal spending and reduce the public debt, eliminate…
Most of us know that the Founders feared tyranny and also feared unchecked democracy. But why? Carl J. Richard?s new book, Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired…
Richard Brookhiser focuses his writing prowess in a new book on the qualities that made George Washington one of the nation?s first great leaders. The same man who asked ?What…
As Sens. Clinton, McCain, and Obama all pursue the presidency, Richard Brookhiser has a new book reminding us about the man who defined “presidential.” Brookhiser has been the subject of…
I did read the last two sentences. The only founders who anticipated King’s words were called Anti-federalists (statesmen who had various reservations about ratifying the Constitution). Neither they or the…