A review by lancegliser
Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government by Mike Lee
4.0
Despite overt political rallying cries bookending the content, this was a fascinating read. The author takes great pains to create a historical narrative that rivals any fiction in detail, allowing the context to be far more easily accepted. The lessons are easily remember with the stories. Bang up job.
While I did not want the political propaganda, I did find myself chuckling through all of it. The author is clearly anti government. At the time, he was excoriating Obama. However nearly every complaint issued can apply equally as well to Trump. It goes to show the point he tries to make in the book so well: the government continues to consolidate and abuse power, despite what was originally intended to be independent experimental states. Hate one party or the other as you like, but you waste all effort unless your aim is to weaken the entire system.
There are some amazing tid bits in here, women, Native Americans, outsiders, "traitors." It fills out the society and ideas of our founding as more than "old white guys," and adds much needed depth.
While I did not want the political propaganda, I did find myself chuckling through all of it. The author is clearly anti government. At the time, he was excoriating Obama. However nearly every complaint issued can apply equally as well to Trump. It goes to show the point he tries to make in the book so well: the government continues to consolidate and abuse power, despite what was originally intended to be independent experimental states. Hate one party or the other as you like, but you waste all effort unless your aim is to weaken the entire system.
There are some amazing tid bits in here, women, Native Americans, outsiders, "traitors." It fills out the society and ideas of our founding as more than "old white guys," and adds much needed depth.