David Sehat is associate professor of history at Georgia State University and author, most recently, of The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible.
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A Historian’s Case for Why We Should Stop Talking About the Founding Fathers
In American politics, the Founding Fathers are more propaganda than people.
David Sehat
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