Review of ‘Apples of Gold’ by Lewes author M.E. Boyd

Having just finished “Apples of Gold: Voices from the past that speak to us now,” by author M.E. Boyd, an attorney who has taught constitutional law, one admires her deep feeling of love and devotion to America and its Constitution.

Boyd leads the reader in a direct and honest way through the drama and trauma of how our nation came to be a bastion for the economic, individual and religious freedoms that we enjoy today. She shows how the Constitution has guided our way and how voices from the past are now more important than ever.

Boyd stresses how education has been one of the unifying aspects of American life from its early beginnings, but our present educational system has moved knowledge of the Constitution to the back burner. She explores America’s uniquely crafted classic liberal document that our citizen founders developed through difficult times so many years ago. Our country and Constitution are in the hands of present and future generations to preserve for their progeny. That is what the founders would want. Boyd is asking us to listen to the important voices from the past that have led us to the life we lead and culture we have.

Every student and every American should avail themselves of Boyd’s history of our country as told through the development of our Constitution. She enlightens readers about our forebears who sacrificed so much to bring about our present times with the Constitution as the guiding light to preserve the freedoms we so much enjoy. It has not been easy, and the fight still goes on. As Boyd opines, these voices from the past still speak to us if we would just listen to them. If we do not listen, then we will lose our virtue, and the loss of the nation’s virtue is what the founders feared most.

Boyd has written the most readable book about the historical story of America and how it came to be through the development of its Constitution that has been published in years. She astutely combines the development of the Constitution in conjunction with the growth and changes of the country, methodically examining how we have become the world’s major free society. Readers will be fascinated by her writing as it leads us through the years that will help one better understand how America came to be and how the Constitution was our guiding light. That understanding is important to all for all time.

“Apples of Gold” will now be at my right hand and will be used quite often as a guide to my readings of American history. Boyd is to be commended for this highly researched book that maybe has come along just in time. A must-read for all. 

“Apples of Gold” is for sale on Amazon.