The American Enlightenment and Priestcraft

In the middle of the nineteenth century, historians decided that this book was too well informed and too arid arudite for ethanalan the mountain man to have written. And then they accused a man named thomas young - who turned out to be one of the authors of the pennsylvania constitution in 17 76. "He's the real forgotten founder," says author David Frum. 'I mean, how much better does he get off the boston sky than I do'

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