The American Experiment: What Your History Teacher Didn't Tell You

America has been regarded as a grand experiment in self-government. While the Greeks and Romans had failed to achieve this in their day, both societies nevertheless rose above their contemporaries and soared to new heights. So, when it came time for the American founders to try their hand at statecraft, they naturally opted to fuse elements of Greek democracy and Roman republicanism together to forge a new and lasting, American, democratic-republic. It was long before this experiment was put to the test, when in 1861, a great “civil war” broke out. We’ve been taught to believe that the experiment survived the war - not only did the government graciously preserve liberty, but they’ve been spreading it abroad ever since. What if this isn’t true? What if liberty and self-government didn’t survive the war? What if all the foreign military aggression ever since has really been an excuse for the victors - an elite cabal of financial interests - to retain and tighten their grip on power? In this book you’ll find a narrative of American history you’ve likely never heard before: the Truth. FOREWORD INTRODUCTION Part I: Athenian Democracy Rethinking Solon Pericles & The Age of Empire Democracy’s Undoing Part II: Roman Republicanism Cicero, Rome & Republicanism Sulla: Rome’s First Dictator The First Triumvirate & The Rise of Caesar Other Republics Part III: Liberty By Design Alexander Hamilton: The Germ of Statism Abraham Lincoln: American Sulla The Progressive Era & The Rise of The Cabal The World At War The Bush-Obama Police-Surveillance State Part IV: Conclusion How Government Grows Other Lessons What Can Be Done RECOMMENDED RESOURCES