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Revolutionary Characters

by Gordon S. Wood
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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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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9781101201664
  • Release date: May 18, 2006

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  • ISBN: 9781101201664
  • File size: 374 KB
  • Release date: May 18, 2006

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781101201664
  • File size: 509 KB
  • Release date: May 18, 2006
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subjects

Biography & Autobiography History Politics Nonfiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1290
Text Difficulty:10-12

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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Biography & Autobiography History Politics Nonfiction
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