About this title: 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 sought ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN-13:9780195338324ISBN:0195338324
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780195338324ISBN:0195338324
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Description: New. In a scholarly, yet accessible work, Bernstein reveals the Founding Fathers not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings who nevertheless achieved political greatness. read more
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