In Soviet Russia, book reads you!
Posted on Sunday, January 4th, 2009 at 11:06 pmSo yesterday I was hanging out with Brent and Katie in Frederick, and we went to a shop that specializes in food from Eastern Europe. (Because why wouldn’t there be a shop in Frederick, Maryland, specializing in Eastern European foods?) Anyway, it also had some books, and I found one called Founding Fathers of the United States that I just had to buy. It’s from 1988, was originally written in Russian, and was printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Why did I have to buy it? Well, things like the fact that Chapter 3 is “Alexander Hamilton: Prophet of Capitalist Development” and a section of the George Washington chapter is “President of a Bourgeois-Planter Republic.” And in that section, you get sentences like, “Already in the early days of his presidency Washington started to rely on religion as an important lever of state power.”
Plus, the author sure seems to like Jefferson, so it has that going for it.