Archive for Robert M. Thornton
Book Review: Decision at Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier
Random House-Reader’s Digest, 201 E. 50th St., New York, NY • 331 pages, $19.95 cloth Ten years ago we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of independence in a spirited if not intellectual fashion. One hopes for a proper celebration in 1987 but I doubt there will be one because there is little “glamour” [...]
1Jan1987 | Robert M. Thornton | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Essential Royster: A Vermont Royster Reader selected by Edmund Fuller
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, P.O. Box 2225, Chapel Hill, NC 27515), 1985 • 345 pages • $18.95 Reviewing this collection of essays and lectures is difficult because Royster—former editor of The Wall Street Journal—writes wisely and eloquently on so many subjects—George Washington and Martin Luther, our duty to posterity and respect for the Constitution, [...]
1Oct1985 | Robert M. Thornton | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Railroaders by Stuart Leuthner
(Random House, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022) 1983 152 pages • $19.95 This is not just another nostalgic book about railroads. You can find many books beautifully illustrated with gorgeous steam engines, but scant attention is paid to those who kept them running. The author has done for old-time railroaders what [...]
1Jul1984 | Robert M. Thornton | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Benjamin Franklin by Ronald W. Clark
Random House, 201 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022) 1983 • 530 pages • $22.95 When war broke out between the American colonies and Great Britain in 1775, Benjamin Franklin was sixty-nine years old and famous, not only in the colonies but in England and on the continent as well. The other outstanding Founding [...]
1Sep1983 | Robert M. Thornton | 1 comment | ContinuedWilliam Jay Gaynor: Libertarian Mayor of New York
Once in a while, it seems, people get a better man in office than they deserve.
1Mar1970 | Robert M. Thornton | 0 comments | ContinuedJohn Quincy Adams: 1767-1848
How would John Quincy Adams rate in the political polls were he to stand for office today?
1Jan1968 | Robert M. Thornton | 0 comments | ContinuedErasmus, Reform, and the Remnant
Even our moral affairs, if we would heed the teachings of Erasmus of Rotterdam, depend for improvement upon the responsible behavior of individuals.
1Jun1967 | Robert M. Thornton | 3 comments | ContinuedLet
Until a man has his own house in order, it ill behooves him to worry for the whole world.
1Jan1967 | Robert M. Thornton | 0 comments | ContinuedOn Heroes, History, and Our Heritage
The heroic stand of stalwart men pervades our history and constitutes our heritage – lest we forget.
1Aug1966 | Robert M. Thornton | 0 comments | ContinuedCentral Planning: Side Door to Socialism
Mr. Thornton is a businessman in Covington, Kentucky. My thesis may be stated very simply: central planning will eventually destroy individual liberty by concentrating all political power in one person or in a committee; furthermore, it will eventually end our prosperity by laying the dead hand of state control on the economy. Now there are [...]
1Aug1965 | Robert M. Thornton | 5 comments | Continued-
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