Book

Fears of a Setting Sun

The Disillusionment of America's Founders

Dennis Rasmussen

2021

Princeton University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Sketch of the ‘Rising Sun’ design carved in the armchair used by George Washington during the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

A Rising or Setting Sun

A review of how Dennis Rasmussen understands America's Founding Fathers and their disillusions with the American experiment.

by Kenly Stewart via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 9, 2021

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Silhouette with pieces of constitutions and other prints inside

When Constitutions Took Over the World

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 22, 2021

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