Full name: The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World

Also published as: The Five Thousand Year Leap: 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World

Author: W. Cleon Skousen Year: 1981 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Politics, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780880801485 0880801484

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America created the first free people to survive as a nation in modern times. They wrote a new kind of Constitution which is now the oldest in existence. They built a new kind of commonwealth designed as a model for the whole human race. They believed it was thoroughly possible to create a new kind of civilization, giving freedom, equality, and justice to all. The Founders created a new cultural climate that gave wings to the human spirit. They encouraged exploration to reveal the scientific secrets of the universe. They built a free-enterprise culture to encourage industry and prosperity. They gave humanity the needed ingredients for a gigantic 5,000-year leap, in which more progress has been in the past 200 years than in all of the prior recorded human history. All of this came about because of 28 basic principles the Founders discovered, upon which all free nations must be built in order to succeed. Similar books: The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen Original Meanings by Jack Rakove Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer The Summer of 1787 by David O. Stewart The Making of America by W. Cleon Skousen Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck Blacklisted by History by M. Stanton Evans The Liberty Amendments by Mark R. Levin Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin Ameritopia by Mark R. Levin Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman Orientalism by Edward W. Said Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson Still the Best Hope by Dennis Prager Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg The Gatekeepers by Chris Whipple Failed States by Noam Chomsky The Assault on Reason by Al Gore