The Founding Fathers reconsidered / / R.B. Bernstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813294803321
• Autore: Bernstein Richard B. <1956->
• 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