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Revolutionary characters : what made the founders different

Title
Revolutionary characters : what made the founders different / Gordon S. Wood.
Author
Wood, Gordon S.
Publication
  • New York : The Penguin Press, 2006.
  • ©2006
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  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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x, 321 pages; 25 cm
Summary
The author offers a series of studies of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together is the idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Wood shows, that took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who considered the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral progress. They saw themselves as comprising the world's first meritocracy, as opposed to the decadent Old World aristocracy of inherited wealth and station. Historian Wood's accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them, and that the virtues they defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still.--From publisher description.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biography.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-307) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The founders and the Enlightenment -- The greatness of George Washington -- The invention of Benjamin Franklin -- The trials and tribulations of Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton and the making of a fiscal-military state -- Is there a "James Madison problem"? -- The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams -- Thomas Paine, America's first public intellectual -- The real treason of Aaron Burr -- The founders and the creation of modern public opinion.
Call Number
JFE 18-5748
ISBN
  • 1594200939
  • 9781594200939
  • 9780143112082
  • 0143112082
  • 0786577916
  • 9780786577910
LCCN
  • 2005055524
  • 9781594200939
OCLC
62290624
Author
Wood, Gordon S., author.
Title
Revolutionary characters : what made the founders different / Gordon S. Wood.
Publisher
New York : The Penguin Press, 2006.
Copyright Date
©2006
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-307) and index.
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Chronological Term
1775-1783
Other Standard Identifier
9781594200939
Research Call Number
JFE 18-5748
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