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George Washington’s Presidency and Legacy Read Part One This is part two of my series on George Washington. To understand the American founding, we have to stop looking at George Washington as two completely different people. We tend to split him into a double portrait: on one side the marble saint of democratic liberty and … Read more
George Washington’s Early Life: Ambition, Order, and Slavery Read Part Two Here After reading and writing about Reagan, I realized there is a lot I don’t know about our Presidents. I decided to start at the beginning, with George Washington. I’ve always been interested in him, but he’s so often seen as a marble statue … Read more
Ronald Reagan’s Presidency and Legacy Read Part 1 Here By January 1981, Reagan’s beliefs were firmly set. Earlier I described how he spent thirty years gathering experiences, frustrations, and ideas that shaped his philosophy. He saw government as more of a problem than a solution, and he trusted that free people, open markets, and voluntary … Read more
Part 2, Reagan as President, is here How Ronald Reagan Became a Republican I’m writing this two-part series because to make any sense of American politics today, I think I need to better understand Ronald Reagan. He is so enshrined by so many Americans that it’s hard for me to separate the myth from the … Read more