The Founding Fathers reconsidered / R.B. Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Richard B., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Founding Fathers of the United States.

Founding Fathers of the United States--Historiography.

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here is a concise, scholarly, yet accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as ""the Founding Fathers""--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic ""philosopher-kings"" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings--people much like us--who nevertheless achieved political greatness. They emerge here as men who soug

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Chronology; CHAPTER 1: Words, Images, Meanings; CHAPTER 2: Contexts: The History That Made the Founding Fathers; CHAPTER 3: Achievements and Challenges: The History the Founding Fathers Made; CHAPTER 4: Legacies: What History Has Made of the Founding Fathers; EPILOGUE: The Founding Fathers, History, and Us; Appendix: The Founding Fathers: A Partial List; Acknowledgments; Notes; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-227) and index.

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ISBN:

1-282-05376-0

9786612053764

0-19-971362-6

OCLC:

320840473