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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different Paperback - 2007

by Gordon S. Wood

From "the most respected among all scholars of the colonial and Revolutionary periods"--"Washington Post World," comes a marvelous group portrait of the Founding Fathers, rich with insight into what shaped these particular men.


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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.

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AMERICA'S FOUNDING FATHERS, or the founders, as our antipatriarchal climate now prefers, have a special significance for Americans.

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  • Title Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
  • Author Gordon S. Wood
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 2007-06-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780143112082 / 0143112082
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.52 x 0.73 in (21.44 x 14.02 x 1.85 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1290
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, United States - History - Revolution,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005055524
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Citations

  • New York Times, 06/24/2007, Page 28

About the author

Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. His 1969 book The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes, and was nominated for the National Book Award. His 1992 book The Radicalism of the American Revolution, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize. His 2009 book Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, won the 2010 New York Historical Society Prize in American History. Wood's other books include Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, most recently, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and he contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books.
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