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The Founding Fathers reconsidered / / R.B. Bernstein



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Autore: Bernstein Richard B. <1956-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Founding Fathers reconsidered / / R.B. Bernstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina: 973.3092/2
973.30922
Soggetto topico: Founding Fathers of the United States
Founding Fathers of the United States - Historiography
Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1775-1783
United States Politics and government 1783-1809
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
Titolo autorizzato: The Founding Fathers reconsidered  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-05376-0
9786612053764
0-19-971362-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813294803321
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