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Free Download Joseph J. Ellis, "American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic"
English | 2007 | pages: 283 | ISBN: 0307276457, 030726369X | EPUB | 0,4 mb
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Free Download Faith and the Founding Fathers by Adam Jortner, The Great Courses, Audible Originals
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0829CYLCC | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 5 hours and 51 minutes | 158 Mb
What did the Founding Fathers think about religion? And why did a group of practicing Protestants create a republic with widespread religious liberty? The 12 lectures included in this fascinating course provide multi-layered insights into the vision, philosophies, politics, and deep-seated faith of these brilliant leaders – in their own time, in their own words.
Listeners will examine the unorthodox religious journeys of men like George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and John Jay, as well as the profound and passionate faiths of John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Rush. They’ll also explore the ways in which the Founders thought about mixing religion with political power, from establishing national fast days to disestablishing state churches.

Free Download Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father by Thomas S. Kidd, Tom Perkins, HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
English | 2017 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B071YPMRFX | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:53:00 + PDF | 136 Mb
Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other 18th-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the "thorough deist" who emerges in his autobiography. As Thomas Kidd reveals, deist writers influenced Franklin’s beliefs, to be sure, but devout Christians in his life – including George Whitefield, the era’s greatest evangelical preacher; his parents; and his beloved sister Jane – kept him tethered to the Calvinist creed of his Puritan upbringing. Based on rigorous research into Franklin’s voluminous correspondence, essays, and almanacs, this fresh assessment of a well-known figure unpacks the contradictions and conundrums faith presented in Franklin’s life.

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Free Download Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State By Sternhell, Zeev
2001 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 1341341461 | PDF | 3 MB
The well-known historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The founders claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society. However, according to Sternhell, socialism served the leaders of the influential labor movement more as a rhetorical resource for the legitimation of the national project of establishing a Jewish state than as a blueprint for a just society. In this thought-provoking book, Sternhell demonstrates how socialist principles were consistently subverted in practice by the nationalist goals to which socialist Zionism was committed. Sternhell explains how the avowedly socialist leaders of the dominant labor party, Mapai, especially David Ben Gurion and Berl Katznelson, never really believed in the prospects of realizing the dream of a new society, even though many of their working-class supporters were self-identified socialists. The founders of the state understood, from the very beginning, that not only socialism but also other universalistic ideologies like liberalism, were incompatible with cultural, historical, and territorial nationalism. Because nationalism took precedence over universal values, argues Sternhell, Israel has not evolved a constitution or a Bill of Rights, has not moved to separate state and religion, has failed to develop a liberal concept of citizenship, and, until the Oslo accords of 1993, did not recognize the rights of the Palestinians to independence.

Free Download John A. Rapp Anita M. Andrew, "Autocracy and China’s Rebel Founding Emperors: Comparing Chairman Mao and Ming Taizu"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0847695808, 0847695794 | PDF | pages: 375 | 14.3 mb
It is now common to hear Mao Zedong referred to as a modern-day ’emperor,’ and the authors argue that Mao can best be compared to a specific imperial predecessor, Ming Taizu, the fourteenth-century peasant rebel who founded the Ming dynasty. Both rulers created autocratic regimes that violently purged political enemies; both used the power of their own words to transform the masses. Utilizing a rich mix of analysis and new translations, the book begins by examining other imperial predecessors and the elements linking Mao and Taizu, as well as critiques of Western and Chinese scholarship. The book presents translations with commentary of PRC scholars on Taizu and Mao, showing the evolution in Chinese thought toward both rulers from the Cultural Revolution to the Deng Xiaoping reform era.

Free Download The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger, Michael McConnohie, Audible Studios
English | 2009 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0030HF9LA | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 12 h 23 m | 340 Mb
In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751-1831) went on to become America’s first full-time politician, dedicating his life to securing America’s national and international durability.
Decorated by George Washington for his exploits as a soldier, Monroe became a congressman, a senator, U.S. minister to France and Britain, governor of Virginia, secretary of state, secretary of war, and finally America’s fifth president. The country embraced Monroe’s dreams of empire and elected him to two terms, the second time unanimously. Mentored by each of America’s first four presidents, Monroe was unquestionably the best prepared president in our history.
Like David McCullough’s John Adams and Jon Meacham’s recent book on Andrew Jackson, this new biography of Monroe is both a solid read and stellar scholarship-history in the grand tradition.

Free Download Who’s Your Founding Father?: One Man’s Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ12Y4XY | 2023 | 10 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 298 MB
Author: David Fleming
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross