Founding Father
ISBN: 978-14-259-5253-2
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Liczba stron: 172
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2006 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: dostępny
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">How does one deal with the eccentricities of a walking, breathing piece of history?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What would you do if confronted with evidence that you had discovered a "Founding Father" and his lost essays, both of which were nearly 250 years old?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">For the author, Professor Robert Sielschott, just such a discovery led to a year and a half of living with history itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In his book <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Founding Father</I>, you will be enchanted by the life and wisdom of Colonel Erasmus Milton, who while ignored by history participated in every pivotal event of the founding of the nation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His life, adventures, and wonderful "Tacitus Essays" may well define for you the meaning of the title <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Founding Father</I>.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Here are samples of the rediscovered wisdom found in Colonel Milton's amazing "Tacitus Essays;"</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>"Who can doubt that the decline in national morality and our judiciary's war against religion have not corresponded?"</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>"We are all Americans, all of us from somewhere else, and whether on the Mayflower itself or in the belly of a wretched slave ship, we are better off for our ancestors having come here."</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>"For no man is free who must depend upon the government for his daily bread."</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>"There may be no greater good to society than the coupling of an honorable man and woman in the creation of this wellspring of good citizens we call 'family.'"</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>"It seems at times our Judges leave the loving bosom of their spouse 'The Law,' and sleep instead with the harlots of personal opinion and public political approval."</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">•<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>"What could be more heartless than to convert our government to a giant wet nurse, then addict the people to her milk laden breasts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Having destroyed not just our ability to earn our own way with work and merit, but even our desire to do so, can she not then order us about like a dominating, all powerful bitch?"</SPAN></P>