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In our unique politization of history, people are forced into two groups. The first are those who’ve only now realized that their larger-than-life image of Jefferson, Washington and the other founders as an uncommonly civil and reasonable bunch is unprejudiced that, a yarn. This group is afflict by this and looks at any attempt to point out the founders weaknesses, internal inconsistencies and what-have-you as nothing less than high slander. Then there is the group that realizes that the founders WERE flawed, contradictory and not quite the reliable stuff of legends. This group, though generally out of political spite, not only embraces this fact, but loves to rub any history buff’s face in it, pointing to our flawed history as distinct proof that America was concieved in shame.
This video is refreshing because we catch a advantageous dose of amunition for both sides. Starting with George Washington’s innaguration, this film takes us through a luminous fable of a people forced to govern from scratch. The film does a pleasant job in pointing out that unlike today, presidents, cabinets, legsilators had no precedents. Who could Washington, Hamilton, the congress who in 1800 dealt with the first election portray in history; none of these, had anyone to peruse to anyone to survey how it was done before. It wasn’t done before! We go through the Washington, Adams, and Jefferson presidency; our dealings with France, a unique economic system, slavery, and colliding visions of the federalists and the republicans (nowadays these would be termed the republicans and the democrats, respectively) . Not quite a Ken Burns film but cessation!
With that said, this film is extemely biased towards the federalists. Whether in the battle of words between Adams and Jefferson, where only Jefferson is made to gape hot-headed, or the constant understatement of Madison’s intellect (well, that is the republican, not the federalist Madison) . If you are like me, an olld whig republican (nowadays called a libertarian or classical liberal) you will be slightly annoyed at oversights like these. Jefferson was by no means a perfect or for that matter, a thorougly trustworthy individual but this film highlights these flaws while letting Hamilton’s race.
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The only other quip I have is that the legislature and judicial branch are completely ignored. It’s understandable because for a film on the History Channel must focus on what the general public is most keen in and this by far is the executive branch (can you name at least one federal believe? ) but it would have been nice once in a while to be reminded of their existence.
Altough this film lacks some of the vigor that Founding Fathers had (with the fiery orations by speakers at the Constitutional Convention), it is aloof thorougly arresting. It conveys what so few films, books and (PUKE!!) history lessons seem to almost, but never fully, glean across; the founders and our history were/was living and breating.
I appreciate history and in original months I have been voraciously reading / viewing various books / DVD collections. Founding Brothers is a documentary from the History Channel that is based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning book by Joseph Ellis. I would label that there is another DVD collection (created a few years ago by the History Channel) entitled Founding Fathers.
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Both DVD collections discuss the lives and times of the founding fathers (brothers) . This particular DVD collection starts with post revolution times (i.e constitutional congress – 1820 or so) and really dives into how, once the war was over the bickering and infighting began amongst the founding fathers. If you are looking for pre-revolution commentary than Founding Fathers is a better DVD collection to select up as it starts with Unusual England dissent to the winning of the war.
1. This DVD collection is well produced. Renowned actors provided the voices for the characters as in Founding Fathers. Many of the shriek overs are done by the same people in both collections.
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2. While the DVD is certainly worth watching I found myself wishing it had more facts about the economy and its progress but, as the title states, this series is about the founding fathers.
3. The series did a nice job of discussing how various fathers had issues with slavery. It discussed whether they were pro-slavery or against it and how some had serious troubles dealing with it.
4. The one thing I thoroughly enjoyed about the DVD collection was that it clearly depicts how each of these men came together despite their different backgrounds and temperaments to found a nation.
Most of my reviews are in business / economics and I help people to read them, whether here on Amazon or at my personal website. If you are eager in economic history book I would benefit everyone to read The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner since it is more international in scope and deals with the lives and times of the most illustrious economists in history. If you are involved in economic development / evolution of U.S. property history I would support you to read Hernando DeSoto’s Mystery of Capital but sign his lack of focus on corruption in definite countries. A mountainous general business book is by the management guru Peter Drucker entitled “The Necessary Drucker.”
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