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Our Questions, Their Answers
Perseus Books Group
May 2006
261 pages
ISBN: 0465008194
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
A lively, timely, and surprising exploration of how
America's Founding Fathers would handle the most
controversial issues facing the nation today--from the
acclaimed popular historian Richard Brookhiser Why do
Americans care so much about the Founding Fathers? After
all, the French don't ask themselves, "What would Napoleon
do?" But Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison,
and Adams built our country, wrote our user's manuals--the
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution--and ran the
nation while it was still under warranty and could be
returned to the manufacturer. If anyone knows how the U.S.A.
should work, they did and they still do. Richard
Brookhiser has been writing, talking, and thinking about the
Founders for years. Now he channels them. What would
Hamilton think about free trade? What would Franklin make of
the national obsession with values? What would Washington
say about gays in the military? Examining a host of issues
from terrorism to women's rights to gun control, Brookhiser
reveals why we still turn to the Founders in moments of
struggle, farce, or disaster--just as Lincoln, FDR, Martin
Luther King, Jr., and Bill Clinton have done before us.
Written with Brookhiser's trademark eloquence--and a
good dose of wit--while drawing on his deep knowledge of
American history, What Would the Founders Do? sheds
new light on the disagreements and debates that have shaped
our country from the beginning. Brookhiser challenges us to
think and act with the clarity that the Founders brought to
the task of making a democratic country. Now, more than
ever, we need these creators of America--argumentative,
expansive, funny know-it-alls--to help us solve the issues
that threaten to divide us.
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