America's Forgotten Founders - Softcover

Gary L. Gregg II; Mark David Hall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884532810 ISBN 13: 9781884532818

Publisher: Butler Books, 2008

Synopsis

Who are the members of America's founding generation who contributed the most to our experiment in republican government but whom we don't adequately remember in modern America?

This is the question that spurred Gary L. Gregg and Mark David Hall to conduct a survey of top scholars in history, political science and law. The results are the first-ever ranking of the most important and most forgotten contributors to the American Revolution and the creation of our constitutional order. America's Forgotten Founders contains well-written and engaging short biographies of the top ten members of the founding generation who are often overlooked but deserve to be remembered. This unique book contains essential biographical material, summations of major accomplishments, and primary source material from the pages of these forgotten founders.

The Top Ten Forgotten Founders Include:

James Wilson
George Mason
Gouverneur Morris
John Jay
Roger Sherman
John Marshall
John Dickinson
Thomas Paine
Patrick Henry
and John Witherspoon

About this title

About the Author:

Gary L. Gregg holds the Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership at the University of Louisville, where he is also director of the McConnell Center. He is the author or editor of six previous nonfiction books, including Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition, as well as the recent children's historical fantasy series The Remnant Chronicles, which has been praised as "belong[ing] on the same shelf with Tolkien and Lewis" by Richard Gamble. A recognized authority on leadership and the study of the American presidency, Gregg serves on the boards of several civic groups, academic publications and the United States Department of Defense.

Mark David Hall is the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science at George Fox University and the author of The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798. A recognized expert on church and state issues, Hall has co-edited several books about America's founders and is currently authoring a new book, The Old Puritan and a New Nation: Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Butler Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1884532810
• ISBN 13: 9781884532818
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178