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Revolutionary Characters |
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What Made the Founders Different
Gordon S. Wood - Author
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| eBook: eReader | 336 pages | ISBN 9780786577927 | 18 May 2006 | The Penguin Press |
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In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, “What made these men great?”—and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine—is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made—men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.
Revolutionary Characters
Preface
Introduction: The Founders and the Enlightenment
One: The Greatness of George Washington
Two: The Invention of Benjamin Franklin
Three: The Trials and Tribulations of Thomas Jefferson
Four: Alexander Hamilton and the Making of a Fiscal-Military State
Five: Is There a "James Madison Problem?"
Six: The Relevance and Irrelevance of John Adams
Seven: Thomas Paine, America's First Public Intellectual
Eight: The Real Treason of Aaron Burr
Epilogue: The Founders and the Creation of Modern Public Opinion
Notes
Index
Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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