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America's Founding Secret: What the Scottish Enlightenment Taught Our Founding Fathers (Hardcover)
by Robert W. Galvin (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 140 pages
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (28 Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0742522806
  • ISBN-13: 978-0742522800
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,059,010 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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In the history of America's founding, the names of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and other founding fathers loom large. But few Americans today would recognise the role played by such men as Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, David Hume and other philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment. In this book, Robert W. Gavin, retired Chairman of the Board of Motorola, Inc. and one of America's most respected corporate leaders, reminds us of the fundamental debt that our founding fathers and this nation owe to this extraordinary group of Scottish thinkers. In the Scottish Enlightenment, America's founders themselves found the philosophical underpinnings for a government conceived and defined with the intent to promote economic progress in commerce based on private capital means. Concise and accessible, "America's Founding Secret" should change the way Americans look at their nation's beginning and remind us again of the fundamental connection between private enterprise and freedom that remains at the heart of the American experiment.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Less Enlightening, 20 Mar 2005
Mr Galvin's subject deserves attention, and in Scotland at this time perhaps more so than in the USA. He is therefore to be congratulated for identifying a subject worthy of a book in a time when many subjects are not.

However, having read this book, I felt cheated. In small format and having 82 pages, the text is large and interspersed with illustrations and blank pages which reduce the actual number of pages with text by 16. So you get little for your money. But there is worse: The large point size used is at odds with the small format and means that any logical layout inherent in the text is obscured. Regrettably, I must also take issue with Mr Galvin's style. Perhaps this is a cultural problem, but it seems to a modern day Scot reading this book that Mr Galvin has deemed it appropriate to convey his thinking about a subject of the intellect with what appears to be intended as high-flown intellectual prose. What he achieves is confusion and obscurantism. The text of this book originates from extemporary speeches by Mr Galvin; it seems that Mr Galvin and his editor have not taken sufficient trouble to translate such verbal utterances into a worthy form of prose.

A great admirer of the American Founding Fathers, and i