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Revolutionary characters what made the founders different

Gordon S Wood

New York Penguin Press 2006

Localização: FDRP - Fac. Direito de Ribeirão Preto ANTÔNIO JUNQUEIRA DE AZEVEDO (320.0973 W8732r 11517/12 )(Acessar)

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Revolutionary characters what made the founders different
Autor: Gordon S Wood
Assuntos: Statesmen -- United States -- Biography; Revolutionaries -- United States -- Biography; Hommes d'État -- États-Unis -- Biographies; Révolutionnaires -- États-Unis -- Biographies; Statesmen -- United States -- Biography; ESTADOS UNIDOS (HISTÓRIA); REVOLUÇÕES -- 1775-1783; POLÍTICA E GOVERNO -- ESTADOS UNIDOS; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783; États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1775-1783 (Révolution) -- Biographies; États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1775-1783
Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-307) and index
Descrição: Introduction: The founders and the Enlightenment -- The greatness of George Washington -- The invention of Benjamin Franklin -- The trials and tribulations of Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton and the making of a fiscal-military state -- Is there a "James Madison problem"? -- The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams -- Thomas Paine, America's first public intellectual -- The real treason of Aaron Burr -- The founders and the creation of modern public opinion
The author offers a series of studies of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together is the idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Wood shows, that took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who considered the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral progress. They saw themselves as comprising the world's first meritocracy, as opposed to the decadent Old World aristocracy of inherited wealth and station. Historian Wood's accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them, and that the virtues they defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still.--From publisher description
Editor: New York Penguin Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2006
Formato: x, 321 p 25 cm.
Idioma: Inglês

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Gordon S Wood

New York Penguin Press 2006

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