Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
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- Synopsis
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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.
- Copyright:
- 1969
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781101201664
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781594200939
- Publisher:
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 09/19/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Gordon S. Wood
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Grade Levels:
- Twelfth grade
- Reading Age:
- 18 and up
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.