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Revolutionary Characters - by Gordon S Wood (Paperback)
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- A New York Times bestseller!
- About the Author: Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University.
- 336 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Historical
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About the Book
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.
Book Synopsis
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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"Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
About the Author
Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. His books have received the Pulitzer, Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes, as well as a National Book Award nomination and the New York Historical Society Prize in American History. They include Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, Revolutionary Characters, The Purpose of the Past, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, and The Idea of America.