America’s 250th Birthday
The Gentlemen on the Balcony, to include Mr. Wil Becker explore America’s 250th birthday. The 250th is more than the famous names, and this week’s balcony discussion does a deep dive into what this Great Experiment really was and is today.
Book List:
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- 1776 by David McCullough
- A Patriot’s History of the United States by Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- Conceived in Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Plain, Honest Men by Richard Beeman
- Resolved: 13 Resolutions for Life by Orrin Woodward
- Revolutionary Characters by Gordon S. Wood
- The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen
- The Course of Human Events by David McCullough
- The Idea of America by Gordon S. Wood
- The Last Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger
- The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
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