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Founding Fathers: Uncommon Heroes | 
 enlarge | Author: Steven W. Allen
Publisher: Legal Awareness Series
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 657095
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 308
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1879033763
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.30922
EAN: 9781879033764
ASIN: 1879033763
Publication Date: July 15, 2002
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Condition: may have minor shelf wear (bin#080200822)
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In Founding Fathers Uncommon Heroes you will learn: -- who kept his wife in a strait-dress in the basement. (p. 131) -- who introduced waffles, macaroni, and ice cream to the United States. (p. 168) -- who spontaneously added so help me God to the Presidential oath of office. (p.76) -- who took daily air-baths in the all-together and who refused to travel with him as a result. (p. 25-27) -- who emerged from a French and Indian War battle with four bullet holes in his coat and two horses shot out from under him yet remained unharmed? (p. 51) -- and much, much more
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 Really Bad April 7, 2008
This book will not impress anyone who is out of high school. It is written at a very low level with poor objectivity.
To be fair, the author is a layperson with no formal advanced degree in the subject of history. However, it shows and the book is a big waste of time especially when Ellis et al. are putting out the real deal on this subject.
 Boring... August 5, 2007
This book seemed to be written over a weekend to catch the 'Founding Fathers' craze. It was poorly written, very large print (I assume to stretch the page count), and it seemed to be a rehash of other's work. I wouldn't buy it. 'Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation' is a much better read.
snoozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze July 28, 2005
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This Book was a big disappointment. The narrative and narrator were uninspired. It was geared to a third grade level and probably wouldn't have held a nine year olds attention long.
 Fascinating & Captivating! July 6, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wonderfully written, this book holds the reader's attention from beginning to end. This book is not only for history buffs, but for anyone who wants a fascinating glimpse of the lives of our founding fathers. Written in the form of short biographies, it makes it easy to put down and pick up again without having to re-read the previous chapter. The timeline in the end also makes it easy to put all of the events into perspective. This will be required reading for my own homeschool children, and should be required for all young adults.
Wonderfully done! September 28, 2004
24 out of 41 found this review helpful
Mr. Allen has put together a magnificent work here. The book features 6 subjects: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Each biography is in the 35 - 40 page range and goes a little deeper than a basic work. Mr. Allen gives the reader the basic information and hits the highlights, but also delves into personal nuances and incidents of each subject.
Each chapter is informative and enjoyable, but Mr. Allen's admiration for Thomas Jefferson shows through. I cannot fault him for that. If I were to commit to such an endeavor, it would surely be slanted toward the greatness of Patrick Henry. I suppose it is most difficult to undertake such a challenge without allowing a certain amount of personal bias to show through.
The final 75 or so pages are filler material that, unlike most filler material, is quite interesting and useful. There is a wonderfully compiled timeline of the lives and major events of the subjects. The book is completed with a wonderful appendix which contains a section where the author debunks some of the myths propagated though the years about some of our founders. Readers wishing to learn more about the founders are sure to find many titles to add to their reading list from the author's endnotes and bibliography.
You will enjoy this unique book and its many anecdotes not often told about these founders. This book would be a tremendous asset for any home-school program.
Monty Rainey
www.juntosociety.com
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