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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
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Title: Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
Artist or Composer: Gordon S Wood
UPC: 9780143112082
Label: Penguin Books
Released: 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 336
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher Description: 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.
Artist or Composer: Gordon S Wood
UPC: 9780143112082
Label: Penguin Books
Released: 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 336
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher Description: 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.
