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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

Wood, Gordon S.

Paperback

Historical FiguresPolitical BiographiesRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0143112082
ISBN13: 9780143112082
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jun 1 2007
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
A New York Times bestseller!

Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best. --The Philadelphia Inquirer

In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, What made these men great, and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter.

The life of each--Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine--is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.

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