‘Fears of a Setting Sun’ by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Is the American experiment nearly at an end? The Founders, surprisingly, asked themselves that question even as the nation was coming into existence. Dennis C. Rasmussen studies their concerns in “Fears of a Setting Sun,” an engaging work that is impressive in scope and original in theme. There is, so far as the author is aware, no other examination of the Founders’ views on the American republic’s likely longevity.
