Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
by Gordon S. Wood
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Author: Gordon S. WoodEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-05-29
ISBN: 0143112082
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary: 4 Stars
The chapters on each of the founding fathers Woods wrote on included a lot of detailed character information in this book. The book provided background information on each person as well as information on their character. It was interesting to read about the contributions these men made that still affect America today such as the banking system, election policies, etc.
Summary of Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
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.General Books
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