Review: When you turn on the lights the roaches scatter...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
In recent years revisionist historians have done their best to recreate our founding fathers in their own image. Of course, in order to do this scholarship has to be abandoned and quotes have to be modified to tell the story in a new and wholly inaccurate way. Fortenberry dispels these myths with an accuracy and depth that is astonishing. I'm frankly tired of the hacks being lauded in the press and am thankful for Fortenberry's diligent work in exposing their charade.I thought I understood where Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin stood on many subjects and had to change my thinking after reading the quotes provided in this book. They were far less 'Deistic' in their thinking than I had thought, and certainly not anti-Christian as some modern scholars would imply. I almost laughed out loud when I learned that one of the sources quoted by a revisionist 'scholar' was the History Channel. I love the History Channel but I am also quick to recognize that they will posit any historical theory that will garner and audience and never think to question the source. Fortenberry's approach is not to make a lot of unsubstantiated assertions but to let you read the quotes and come to your own conclusion. He is also careful to provided links to the original material so that further examination is but a click away.If you are interested in learning what our founding father's really believed, this book will show you, in their own words. In the light of this kind of scholarship I suspect the revisionist roaches will have to run for cover.