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Discusses the history of America's Founding Fathers through their words and actions but also through the architectural treasures of the homes they built while they conspired to change the world.
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For Barbara, Julia, Alec, and Trevor
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When did the American Revolution begin?
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If there existed a "standard of infallibility to political opinions," [George Washington] wrote, no one "would resort to it with more eagerness than myself, so long as I remain a servant of the public. But I have found no better guide than upright intentions and close investigations [. . .]" (Chapter 5, "President Washington", elisions added)
Now [Alexander Hamilton] wrote Lafayette, "I dread the reveries of your Philosophic politicians . . . who being mere speculists may aim at more refinement than suits . . . with human nature." (Chapter 7, "Alexander Hamilton and the American Dream," elisions in the source)
[...] their experiment in government, still brand new, seemed fragile to them: Benjamin Franklin's famous answer to Elizabeth Powel's question of what kind of government the Constitutional Convention had produced, "A republic -- if you can keep it." (Chapter 7, "Alexander Hamilton and the American Dream," elisions added)
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She [Dolley Madison] lay first in one temporary vault and then in another until 1858, when Montpelior's new owners at last gave permission for her to be buried beside her husband in the red Virginia clay, as the Civil War was about to sweep over it, making way for America's new birth of freedom.
Discusses the history of America's Founding Fathers through their words and actions but also through the architectural treasures of the homes they built while they conspired to change the world.