1165: 3/4 The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition, by Myron Magnet

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, midnight

Image:   Stratford Hall, established by Thomas Lee in the 1730s, is one of the great houses of American history. Four generations of the Lee family passed through its stately doors, including Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, the only two brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence; the Revolutionary War hero “Light Horse Harry” Lee, and his son, the Civil War General Robert E. Lee, who was born at Stratford Hall in 1807. Here:  View of the garden at Stratford Hall II The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition,  by Myron Magnet (https://www.amazon.com/Myron-Magnet/e/B001H6MRPW/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1)     Through the Founders’ own voices — and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve — we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success. The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions. Richly illustrated with America’s historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with so much care and money, for they are revealing embodiments of the ideal of life they strove to bring into being. That so many great thinkers — Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston — came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas. Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight on why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity.   https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Home-Building-America-1735-1817-ebook/dp/B00COQ6XCM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=