03004nam 2200625Ia 450 991078280570332120230721021159.01-282-05376-097866120537640-19-971362-6(CKB)1000000000747254(EBL)430669(OCoLC)320840473(SSID)ssj0000157611(PQKBManifestationID)11149670(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157611(PQKBWorkID)10139963(PQKB)11255624(MiAaPQ)EBC430669(Au-PeEL)EBL430669(CaPaEBR)ebr10288327(CaONFJC)MIL205376(MiAaPQ)EBC7033694(Au-PeEL)EBL7033694(EXLCZ)99100000000074725420081031d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Founding Fathers reconsidered[electronic resource] /R.B. BernsteinOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-533832-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-227) and index.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; IndexHere 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 sougFounding Fathers of the United StatesFounding Fathers of the United StatesHistoriographyUnited StatesPolitics and government1775-1783United StatesPolitics and government1783-1809Founding Fathers of the United States.Founding Fathers of the United StatesHistoriography.973.3092/2973.30922Bernstein Richard B.1956-1520051MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782805703321The Founding Fathers reconsidered3758504UNINA