Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 06/01/2007
ISBN: 9780143112082
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.52w x 0.73d

Review Citations: New York Times 06/24/2007 pg. 28