http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2009/07/03/revolutionary-characters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=revolutionary-characters www.ToryAnarchist.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2009/07/03/revolutionary-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-1476 The Revolution Was Not Televised « Around The Sphere Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:35:25 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/mccarthy/?p=1135#comment-1476 [...] Daniel McCarthy at TAC: After 230 years the American Revolution and our Founding Fathers have become shopworn things, leached of much of their character, reduced to mannequins to be dressed up in the intellectual fashions of the day. Idealized portrayals of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the rest still find a mass audience, resisting revisionist pressure. But as objects of reverence, the Founders cease to be what they were-revolutionaries, men who took up arms against their government and spilled blood for their rights. [...] [...] Daniel McCarthy at TAC: After 230 years the American Revolution and our Founding Fathers have become shopworn things, leached of much of their character, reduced to mannequins to be dressed up in the intellectual fashions of the day. Idealized portrayals of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the rest still find a mass audience, resisting revisionist pressure. But as objects of reverence, the Founders cease to be what they were-revolutionaries, men who took up arms against their government and spilled blood for their rights. [...]

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