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How to Think About the American Revolution A Bicentennial Cerebration

Harry V. Jaffa

This volume represents the third in a series. In 1999, in commemoration of Professor Harry V. Jaffa's 80th birthday, the Claremont Institute began to re-issue Jaffa's out-of-print books. The present volume, originally published by Carolina Academic Press in 1978, joins

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The Charlie Kirk Show

It was recommended for its insightful examination of the American founding, considered excellent but requiring some effort to fully understand.

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I think it was Harry Jaffa who had a really really good book on the American founding Leo Strauss I know wrote really in deep it was I think it was commentary on the American founding or how to think...

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It was recommended for its insightful examination of the American founding, considered excellent but requiring some effort to fully understand.

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I think it was Harry Jaffa who had a really really good book on the American founding Leo Strauss I know wrote really in deep it was I think it was commentary on the American founding or how to think about the American Revolution I think that's what it's called how to think about the American I want to see this revolution.

Yeah that's how it is how to think about the American Revolution by Harry Jaffa it's excellent take some work to get into it but yeah it's harder but you could do worse than this primary dot their founding documents are written in English not just a institution but go to primary source documents yes primary source documents can teach you so much because so many things are edited deliberately or just accidentally by scholars who come later and when you really immerse yourself in the original stuff you get a really great sense of what they worried about what they cared about yes and I think that you know just Joshua the other thing just be a lifelong learner if you find a topic that you really care about try to constantly you know read books that are challenging you.

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