St. Martin’s Press in January 2020: THE FOUNDING FORTUNES: HOW THE WEALTHY PAID FOR AND PROFITED FROM AMERICA’S REVOLUTION Pre-publication praise: “An ingenious examination of how money played the central role in the founding of the United States … Shachtman emphasizes that [after the Revolution] no mass movement demanded change. The Constitution was championed “by […]
August 15, 2019. Lecture on THE PHONY WAR, 1939-1940 at Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY.
June 9, 2019. Lecture on THE PHONY WAR, 1939-1940 at Hotchkiss Library of Sharon CT.
July 25, 2018. Lecture at Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library on ‘FDR and the Scientists.’
July 17, 2018. Lecture on ‘How the French Saved America,’ Bastille Day celebration at New York Union League Club.
Our Founding Fathers Feared a Trump
The Daily Beast is an American news and opinion website focused on politics and pop culture. In a 2015 interview, editor in chief John Avlon described The Beast‘s editorial approach: “We seek out scoops, scandals and stories about secret worlds; we love confronting bullies, bigots and hypocrites.” Our Founding Fathers Feared a Trump (@The Daily Beast) The Founders had a […]