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The Spirit of the Revolution

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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I’ve been reading Joseph Ellis’s Founding Brothers, a book that’s been on my shelf for a while, and I’m fascinated by the echoes between the struggles this nation faced in its early years and the ones it faces now. In chapter one, Ellis explains that America was founded in the conflict between the opposing principles of [...]

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