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000337549 1001_ $$aWood, Gordon S.
000337549 24510 $$aRevolutionary characters :$$bwhat made the founders different /$$cGordon S. Wood.
000337549 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPenguin Press,$$c2006.
000337549 300__ $$ax, 321 p. ;$$c25 cm.
000337549 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-307) and index.
000337549 5050_ $$aIntroduction: The founders and the Enlightenment -- The greatness of George Washington -- The invention of Benjamin Franklin -- The trials and tribulations of Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton and the making of a fiscal-military state -- Is there a "James Madison problem"? -- The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams -- Thomas Paine, America's first public intellectual -- The real treason of Aaron Burr -- The founders and the creation of modern public opinion.
000337549 520__ $$aThe 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.
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000337549 650_0 $$aRevolutionaries$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
000337549 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory$$yRevolution, 1775-1783$$vBiography.
000337549 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xPolitics and government$$y1775-1783.
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