Full name: Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

Author: Gordon S. Wood Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780143112082 0143112082

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. Similar books: Friends Divided by Gordon S. Wood The Creation of the American Republic by Gordon S. Wood A Struggle for Power by Theodore Draper 1776 by David McCullough Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis American Scripture by Pauline Maier Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer Eyewitness to America by David Colbert The Unknown American Revolution by Gary B. Nash The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff The Idea of America by Gordon S. Wood Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer To America by Stephen E. Ambrose Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin