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200 14$aThe Founding Fathers reconsidered /$fR.B. Bernstein
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (265 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-533832-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-227) and index.
327   $aContents; 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
330   $aHere 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
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607   $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1809
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