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Dennis Rasmussen

Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders

Dennis Rasmussen

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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

George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, drawn to be crying, and up to their shoulders in water/tears.

Disillusioned Revolutionaries

Many founders died in despair about the American experiment.

by Matt Welch via Reason on June 13, 2026

Gouverneur Morris.

The One-Legged Founding Father Who Escaped the French Revolution

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure.

by Zachary Clary via Smithsonian Magazine on September 2, 2025

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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