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The Great Contradiction

The Tragic Side of the American Founding

Joseph Ellis

2025

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Sliced and shifted John Trumbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

America’s Founding Fathers Had No Faith in Democracy

On the inherent contradictions behind the American revolutionary dream.

by Joseph Ellis via Literary Hub on October 28, 2025

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