James D. Best

Mike Reads has reviewed Tempest at Dawn . Link "I found this novel to be an interesting read.  I thoroughly enjoyed it." If...

SAGE in Northridge, CA is doing a dramatic reading of Tempest at Dawn . The SAGE Society is a learning-in-retirement organizat...

"Tempest at Dawn is a novel. Fiction. Historical fiction. It does adhere closely to Madison’s notes when describing what occurred i...

Prior to 1776, world history was primarily written about kings and emperors. The American experiment shook the world. Not only did the c...

Prior to championing a Bill of Rights in the First Congress, James Madison wrote a revealing letter to Thomas Jefferson in October of 1788...

We often hear laments that our politicians no longer honor their pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United State...

Just finished The Dirty Dozen, How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom . I barely got a B in my only...

Our Constitution created a limited representative republic.  A republic is different from a democracy.  In a democracy, the majority can dir...

It was an unusually hot summer for Philadelphia, and for a few weeks there was an infestation of big black flies that buzzed around the dele...

"Using vivid narrative and expressive dialogue,   Tempest at Dawn   presents all the major issues the Founding Fathers struggled with. ...

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 5:  No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adop...

I accepted an invitation to write articles for the What Would The Founders Think? blogsite. This is an interesting site where multiple con...

Professor Dr. Peter Lillback and I will be conducting a course on Founding Principles for  Beck University . The course premiers on...

The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence, or veiled in fable, and perhaps the world has lost little it should regret. But...

Tempest at Dawn is a dramatization of the constitutional convention of 1787. The recent publication of my novel has gotten a lot of atten...