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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813294803321

Autore

Bernstein Richard B. <1956->

Titolo

The Founding Fathers reconsidered / / R.B. Bernstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-05376-0

9786612053764

0-19-971362-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

973.3092/2

973.30922

Soggetti

Founding Fathers of the United States

Founding Fathers of the United States - Historiography

United States Politics and government 1775-1783

United States Politics and government 1783-1809

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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