Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
by Wood, Gordon S. (Gordon Stewart)
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594200939
- ISBN 13
- 9781594200939
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Synopsis
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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- Dorley House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 080922
- Title
- Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
- Author
- Wood, Gordon S. (Gordon Stewart)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594200939
- ISBN 13
- 9781594200939
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- American Revolution; George Washington, Thomas Jeffrson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams
- Size
- 8 vo
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