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The Great Contradiction

The Tragic Side of the American Founding

Joseph Ellis

2025

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Book Review

Banquo’s Ghost: The Contradictions of the American Revolution

A review of Joseph Ellis's reassessment of the Founding, arguing that slavery and Indigenous dispossession were central contradictions of 1776.

by Gerald Horne via The Nation
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on June 10, 2026
Book Excerpt

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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