Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen

By Jon Hersey

May 03, 2024

∙ Paid

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021

288 pp. $9.99 (Kindle)

Is America on its last leg? Will some Edward Gibbon of the next generation be writing The Rise and Fall of the American Empire? And if so, will the knockout punch come from the “woke” left—or from reactionary national conservatives; from a Chinese social media company—or from WWIII? Or…

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