This is definitely on my Summer Reading List. Jim
The History of the American Left; The Latest Release February 25, 2012. This is the First Version that is Complete and Unabridged. First Edition. This version now contains all three books in their First Edition... Book One: The Origins of the American Left. Book Two: The Pterodactyl Hatches, and Book Three: The Shadow of the Wind.
It was the best government ever devised by man. There were no political parties. The losing candidate in a presidential election became the automatic vice president. And no one in government ever dared to speak of anything but Freedom and what was best for each of the sovereign states. The general government was as good a servant as there ever was. But then there arose certain who wished to see the federal government become the master, and no longer the servant of the people. To vote themselves largesse from the common purse at the expense of the residue. To have a permanent adversarial and malcontented national party which would continually chafe at the Constitution, its limitations, and its laws preventing monarchy, socialism, and empire. To force the country to live by its socialist opinions, and its agenda, however deranged and unorthodox these opinions
might become.
These people would become known as the American Left.
America today has two major political 'parties' which seem to overpower and
control the political landscape of our government. They call themselves by the names of Democrat and Republican. They believe that they fall somewhere along a linear viewpoint that has one side, the Democrats, to the left, and the other side, the Republicans, to a right. There does not seem to be a centrist viewpoint in North America, at all. There is certainly no party which aligns itself as such, nor is there any other political party even mentioned with respect to the elections each year.
But where did these two major political parties come from? Who are they, and why do they completely control our political futures?
It is often said that we should never discuss nor argue either religion or politics in polite society. Yet, while religion should be a personal thing, the concept of politics affects us all, as a group. Why, then, should we not discuss where this creature came from, and why it sounds so radically hostile and alien to the soothing platitudes and forthright dignity found in the United States Constitution?
The truth is this; the rise of the American Left brought politics to We the People, and cast an evil shadow on this nation, one which would tear us in half, over and over again. One which now keeps us torn in half, to this very moment.
Let us now explore the origins of this concept, and what we might do to set matters aright, in the future. The founders did know of this possible problem, and feared it greatly, even in their day. Perhaps they may yet have the sound advice that we need to finally, at long last, 'preserve this union of states' from such a division...
It is a fairly simple and straightforward look at something that has never been done before; that is, to show just how the American Left started the political party system in this country. The reader will want to read each of these excellent sources that are mentioned herein, for the full story...
The purpose of The History of the American Left is to give the basic information on the history of the American Left, inspire an interest into the study of real American History, and to link the Hamilton era with the Henry Clay/ Lincoln era, all the way into the modern era, as a fairly competent overview of American socialism, and its agenda, as well as its incumbent evils.
(Updated on 21 March, 2012 with an addition from the Southern Historical Society of Colonel John B. Baldwin).