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    America's Forgotten History, Part Two: Rupture: America’s Forgotten History, #2
    America's Forgotten History: Part Three: A Progressive Empire: America’s Forgotten History, #3
    America's Forgotten History: Part One: Foundations: America’s Forgotten History, #1
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    America’s Forgotten History Series

    By Mark David Ledbetter

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    About this series

    The chapters of America's story are marked by momentous events. In 1776, in some English colonies of America, proud inheritors of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 declared both their independence and intention to form a government based on Enlightenment principles. Despite inevitable missteps and contradictions, some major, those living the story mostly stayed true to the Classical Liberal project of minimalist government and individual rights until the end of the nineteenth century. After the Spanish-American War, though, with the acquisition of an explicit Pacific empire and the enthusiastic embrace of Progressivism, America embarked on a new experiment for the new century, one which valued activist government and equality. If the first experiment lasted one hundred and twenty years, the second experiment, too, is now a hundred and twenty years old, and tottering on the edge of a widening gyre as, perchance, we enter a third era.


    If the gods are smiling on us, we will pull back from the edge to combine in the Third Era the best of the First and Second. If they are not, the forces of history might yet plunge our civilization into the inferno, as they have done to so many other great civilizations.
    Grotius Rises is a history of the foundational first three decades of the Second Era of the American story. It takes us from the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt to that of Herbert Hoover; from the Spanish-American War to the Great Depression, three decades that saw Classical Liberalism fall as Progressivism rose to take its place.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark David Ledbetter
    Release dateMay 3, 2018
    America's Forgotten History, Part Two: Rupture: America’s Forgotten History, #2
    America's Forgotten History: Part Three: A Progressive Empire: America’s Forgotten History, #3
    America's Forgotten History: Part One: Foundations: America’s Forgotten History, #1

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    • 1

      America's Forgotten History: Part One: Foundations: America’s Forgotten History, #1
      America's Forgotten History: Part One: Foundations: America’s Forgotten History, #1

      America's Forgotten History: Part One: Foundations: America’s Forgotten History, #1

      Mark David Ledbetter
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      History is written by the victors. But do the victors in America's forgotten debate really have it right? Do they even think about whether it is America's destiny to be both a nanny state and garrison state? American's Forgotten History questions standard understanding from a constitutionalist point of view. This, the first of five volumes, looks at the English Civil War, fought between Puritans and Cavaliers. It then follows Puritans as they flee Cavalier power to Massachusetts and later Cavaliers as they flee Puritan power to Virginia. Puritans and Cavaliers allied against the mercantilism of England to form a new system based on the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the English Bill of Rights, and the Enlightenment philosophy of Locke and Montesquieu. They would maintain their uneasy alliance until they fought another civil war on a new continent. After the American Revolution, parties formed around Jefferson and Hamilton that would frame American's philosophical debate until the collapse of Jeffersonianism at the Democratic convention of 1896. The debate, so important in the 19th century and so important if America is to rediscover itself, is ignored by the victors of the debate, those who give us standard American history. Modern historians extol activist war-like presidents, high taxes, super government, and aggressive international militarism. The Constitution, as it was written and intended, makes all that impossible. This volume, Part One of American's Forgotten History, covers English roots, the colonial period, the Revolution, the Constitution, and the first four presidential administrations, those of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison.

      History is written by the victors. But do the victors in America's forgotten debate really have it right? Do they even think about whether it is America's destiny to be both a nanny state and garrison state? American's Forgotten History questions standard understanding from a constitutionalist point of view. This, the first of five volumes, looks at the English Civil War, fought between Puritans and Cavaliers. It then follows Puritans as they flee Cavalier power to Massachusetts and later Cavaliers as they flee Puritan power to Virginia. Puritans and Cavaliers allied against the mercantilism of England to form a new system based on the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the English Bill of Rights, and the Enlightenment philosophy of Locke and Montesquieu. They would maintain their uneasy alliance until they fought another civil war on a new continent. After the American Revolution, parties formed around Jefferson and Hamilton that would frame American's philosophical debate until the collapse of Jeffersonianism at the Democratic convention of 1896. The debate, so important in the 19th century and so important if America is to rediscover itself, is ignored by the victors of the debate, those who give us standard American history. Modern historians extol activist war-like presidents, high taxes, super government, and aggressive international militarism. The Constitution, as it was written and intended, makes all that impossible. This volume, Part One of American's Forgotten History, covers English roots, the colonial period, the Revolution, the Constitution, and the first four presidential administrations, those of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison.

    • 2

      America's Forgotten History, Part Two: Rupture: America’s Forgotten History, #2
      America's Forgotten History, Part Two: Rupture: America’s Forgotten History, #2

      America's Forgotten History, Part Two: Rupture: America’s Forgotten History, #2

      Mark David Ledbetter
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      From its small government, non-aggressive, republican beginnings, America has become a garrison state devoted to remaking the world in its own image. While Republicans and Democrats quibble over the details of policing the world and running a nanny state, Ledbetter looks at another way, a forgotten way, the way invented during a tiny window of opportunity by the Enlightenment philosophers who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. America's Forgotten History is their story, a story once well-known but now lost to both historians and the general populace in the course of America's mad rush into the future. Part One, Foundations, examined the Enlightenment underpinnings of the American system, the colonial period, the Revolution and Constitution, and the first generation of presidents. Part Two, Rupture, continues the story up through Lincoln and the Civil War.

      From its small government, non-aggressive, republican beginnings, America has become a garrison state devoted to remaking the world in its own image. While Republicans and Democrats quibble over the details of policing the world and running a nanny state, Ledbetter looks at another way, a forgotten way, the way invented during a tiny window of opportunity by the Enlightenment philosophers who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. America's Forgotten History is their story, a story once well-known but now lost to both historians and the general populace in the course of America's mad rush into the future. Part One, Foundations, examined the Enlightenment underpinnings of the American system, the colonial period, the Revolution and Constitution, and the first generation of presidents. Part Two, Rupture, continues the story up through Lincoln and the Civil War.

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      America's Forgotten History: Part Three: A Progressive Empire: America’s Forgotten History, #3
      America's Forgotten History: Part Three: A Progressive Empire: America’s Forgotten History, #3

      America's Forgotten History: Part Three: A Progressive Empire: America’s Forgotten History, #3

      Mark David Ledbetter
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      Part Three of America's Forgotten History takes us from the end of the Civil War to the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurection. We look at Reconstruction, the Indian Wars in the West, the land grant railroads of the West, the labor and farmer movements, the rise of Populism and Progressivism, Jim Crow laws and the freedmen after Reconstruction, the Social Gospel and Christian Socialism, and finally America joining Europe and Japan in the pursuit of empire. 1898, the year it became an explicit and unabashed empire, was a great if largely ignored turning point in American history, pointing America forever in a different direction. The perspective of this series is libertarian or classical liberal; the hope is that it is a good story sympathetic to all sides.

      Part Three of America's Forgotten History takes us from the end of the Civil War to the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurection. We look at Reconstruction, the Indian Wars in the West, the land grant railroads of the West, the labor and farmer movements, the rise of Populism and Progressivism, Jim Crow laws and the freedmen after Reconstruction, the Social Gospel and Christian Socialism, and finally America joining Europe and Japan in the pursuit of empire. 1898, the year it became an explicit and unabashed empire, was a great if largely ignored turning point in American history, pointing America forever in a different direction. The perspective of this series is libertarian or classical liberal; the hope is that it is a good story sympathetic to all sides.

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      America's Forgotten History, Part Four: Grotius Rises: America’s Forgotten History, #4
      America's Forgotten History, Part Four: Grotius Rises: America’s Forgotten History, #4

      America's Forgotten History, Part Four: Grotius Rises: America’s Forgotten History, #4

      Mark David Ledbetter
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      The chapters of America's story are marked by momentous events. In 1776, in some English colonies of America, proud inheritors of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 declared both their independence and intention to form a government based on Enlightenment principles. Despite inevitable missteps and contradictions, some major, those living the story mostly stayed true to the Classical Liberal project of minimalist government and individual rights until the end of the nineteenth century. After the Spanish-American War, though, with the acquisition of an explicit Pacific empire and the enthusiastic embrace of Progressivism, America embarked on a new experiment for the new century, one which valued activist government and equality. If the first experiment lasted one hundred and twenty years, the second experiment, too, is now a hundred and twenty years old, and tottering on the edge of a widening gyre as, perchance, we enter a third era. If the gods are smiling on us, we will pull back from the edge to combine in the Third Era the best of the First and Second. If they are not, the forces of history might yet plunge our civilization into the inferno, as they have done to so many other great civilizations. Grotius Rises is a history of the foundational first three decades of the Second Era of the American story. It takes us from the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt to that of Herbert Hoover; from the Spanish-American War to the Great Depression, three decades that saw Classical Liberalism fall as Progressivism rose to take its place.

      The chapters of America's story are marked by momentous events. In 1776, in some English colonies of America, proud inheritors of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 declared both their independence and intention to form a government based on Enlightenment principles. Despite inevitable missteps and contradictions, some major, those living the story mostly stayed true to the Classical Liberal project of minimalist government and individual rights until the end of the nineteenth century. After the Spanish-American War, though, with the acquisition of an explicit Pacific empire and the enthusiastic embrace of Progressivism, America embarked on a new experiment for the new century, one which valued activist government and equality. If the first experiment lasted one hundred and twenty years, the second experiment, too, is now a hundred and twenty years old, and tottering on the edge of a widening gyre as, perchance, we enter a third era. If the gods are smiling on us, we will pull back from the edge to combine in the Third Era the best of the First and Second. If they are not, the forces of history might yet plunge our civilization into the inferno, as they have done to so many other great civilizations. Grotius Rises is a history of the foundational first three decades of the Second Era of the American story. It takes us from the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt to that of Herbert Hoover; from the Spanish-American War to the Great Depression, three decades that saw Classical Liberalism fall as Progressivism rose to take its place.

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    Mark David Ledbetter

    In 2016, Mark Ledbetter returned to America after a forty year sojourn in Japan, raising a family and keeping an eye on America with both the knowledge of an insider and the eyes of an outsider, capping his career with three years as a visiting professor of linguistics at Hosei University in Tokyo. He arrived back in the United States in October of 2016, just in time to witness a political earthquake, one of those historical episodes rife with potential and danger, which give life, and sometimes death, to the story of a nation. Either way, he intends to monitor the process, doing what he can in his small way to save the Great American Experiment. He has written extensively on both linguistics and history, publishing in both English and Japanese.

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