Description
Title: Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
Author: Gordon S Wood
ISBN: 9780143112082
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 336
Condition: Used Copy
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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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