1776: Gifts from the American Revolution is an illuminating yet condensed history of The United States of America starting with the Puritan’s arrival in 1620 at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. As well as covering our Revolution and the creation of the Constitution the book also devotes separate chapters to Blacks and slavery, and to Native Americans and their Trail of Tears across the continent. As well, Hispanics, who also have not had it easy, were here in the Southwest before 1620 and are covered in another chapter. History is not history if it cherry picks and ignores the bad and Uncle Sam has had his share of it.
Later chapters build on the achievements of the Revolution by covering diverse but related topics such as; Politics today; Faith; Religions; World Wars, Debt, the infamous ‘summer of love, and the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Chapter 21 on Faith is the author’s attempt to clarify and strengthen his faith by developing an explanation of how Evolution and Creation are the same. Reading and parsing the Bible, the world’s most important book, can become difficult and controversial as this approach reveals.
Section 5 is devoted to Energy and Climate in 6 chapters. The focus in this section is about the expensive and unnecessary policy of forcing renewals by government actions to eliminate fossil fuels. The consequences to our nation from the abject failure to consider what it will take to make that transition are bared for all to read.
The book concludes with some gnarly bits called Gems and Nuggets in Chapter 38. These are simply earthy statements of obvious truths intended to galvanize thought. Often complicated subjects grow into swamp like morasses. Problems become more soluble when made simple.
Chapter 39 is a one page admonition aimed at young people that, if followed, provides some pithy but important keys to success.
Over de auteur
Charles’ career, after Navy service as an Electrician’s Mate on the icebreaker USS Burton Island (1954-58), was in engineering and operations management in the computer industry beginning in 1961 after graduation from the University of Alabama. Upon retiring in 1997, he started a home remodeling business. At that same time, he also began an intensive hobby involving detailed research, leading to writing essays on many contemporary topics such as climate change, energy policy, Islamic terrorism, politics, the culture wars, the economics of government, religion, and more. That avocation then developed into an increasingly broader appreciation and understanding of our founding and the Constitution. That work then naturally morphed into producing this book.He is married to Sam Dumas, and their family includes five children and twelve grandchildren.This book, now in its 5th edition, began as a project to better inform his grandchildren about America’s founding and the singular uniqueness of our Constitution. It has now grown to be much more comprehensive and improved than the first edition. Charles and Sam live in the central highlands of Arizona.
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