The Five Thousand Year Leap: Twenty-Eight Great Ideas That Are Changing the World [Paperback]

W. Cleon Skousen (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Center for Constitutional (June 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880800046
• ISBN-13: 978-0880800044
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #778,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

W. Cleon Skousen is best remembered as a popular author, speaker and teacher who lectured in every state and province in North America, and in more than 60 countries world-wide. He was a student of history and a scholar of law, specializing in the principles of Freedom, the U.S. Constitution, economics, and ancient history and scriptures.

He was invited to write a new constitution for Canada and the proposed United States of Latin America, and he published a model constitution that could be adopted by nations everywhere. He served in the FBI for 16 years, four years as Chief of Police in Salt Lake City, and ten years as a university professor. He was a prolific writer and produced three national best sellers, The Naked Communist, The Naked Capitalist, and The Five Thousand Year Leap. Eight of his books were used as college texts, and several were translated and published in other countries.

Dr. Skousen was born in Canada, and returned to the U.S. with his family at age ten. He spent two years in Mexico, two years in England, graduated from San Bernardino College in California, and received his juris doctor degree from George Washington University Law School. He was admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and before the District Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

His seminars on the Constitution have been taught to several million across the U.S., and among his students were dozens of U.S. Senators and Representatives, two Supreme Court justices, and several candidates for President. He believed knowledge and understanding were key to maintaining a free country, and spent his entire adult life opening up complex issues for deeper understanding by students and audiences all around the world.

Mr. Skousen and his wife, Jewel Pitcher of San Bernardino, California, are the parents of eight children, 50 grandchildren, and more than 120 great-grandchildren.

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70 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best way to understand our founding fathers ideas., July 6, 1998

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This review is from: The Five Thousand Year Leap: Twenty-Eight Great Ideas That Are Changing the World (Paperback)

This book is the most detailed collection I've ever seen discussing the constitution and the men who wrote it. I'm planning on making it one of my children's schoolbooks! If you are interested in finding out more about your country and why it was founded, you need to read this book. You'll look back on it often for reference, and you'll have a hard time not loaning it out to every person you know.

156 of 208 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Nation Under God, December 3, 2002

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Armando Solano (San Rafael, California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Five Thousand Year Leap: Twenty-Eight Great Ideas That Are Changing the World (Paperback)

A great compilation of the inspired ideas that are shaping our nation; a must read for all patriots. In this post-September-11 world, this book reminds us of the need to return to the religious and moral foundation upon which our republic rests.

Although the book's thesis is based on Judeo-Christian principles, I had no problem (nor did our nation's founders) in extending its premises to all humanity and all humane belief systems. I especially liked the summary of Ben Franklin's fundamentals of all sound religion on p. 77.

For those of you who deny the need for a religious and moral component to our society, I can only side with an intellect greater than mine. Let us remember George Washington's warning from his farewell address excerpted on p. 76 of the book: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indespensable supports...And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion...Reason and experience forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle."

Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, anyone who believes in an ordered universe will find much to ponder in this book.

96 of 128 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is not Outcome-Based Education, thank God..., December 4, 2000

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Michael Terry (Tualatin, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Five Thousand Year Leap: Twenty-Eight Great Ideas That Are Changing the World (Paperback)

It just amazes me how well established the revisionists have become in America, and how so many of us can't see through the smoke screen. When we can read direct quotes from our Founding Forfathers why do we still continue to disbelieve? This isn't the first book I've read of this kind and this one continues to make my convictions about this country even stronger. The information contained in it should be in every household in America and every school house in every county, seat, parish in every state and be manditory study for every politician, government official, "leader" and political figure of every kind.