The Honest Book of America's Founders: Interactive Stories & Independence Day Ceremony

Most Fourth of July celebrations involve fireworks, burgers, and not much else. This book proposes something more meaningful: a family ceremony that connects the celebration to the story that makes it worth celebrating. Inspired by the Passover Seder, a tradition that has kept a people's founding story alive across thousands of years by telling it aloud, at the table, year after year, The Honest Book of America's Founders offers a ready-to-use Independence Day ceremony designed to bring the founding generation to life for every member of the family. Inside are a complete ceremony script, profiles of the Founding Fathers, key events and turning points from the Revolutionary War, and educational activities suitable for all ages. The ceremony is designed to be interactive rather than passive, to make children participants in the story rather than spectators of it, and to plant in them the kind of historical understanding and patriotic pride that a generation raised on revision and grievance is not getting anywhere else. Dennis Prager frames the volume simply: this is a celebration of liberty, of E Pluribus Unum, and of In God We Trust, the ideas that made the American experiment possible and still make it worth defending. Make Independence Day a tradition your family always honors.