Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different - Brossura

Wood, Gordon S.

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ISBN 10: 0143112082 ISBN 13: 9780143112082

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2007

Riassunto

A historical analysis of America's founding leaders identifies the character qualities that enabled them to make their pivotal contributions to the country's formation, discussing what their examples can teach modern readers and how their shared vision of a national meritocracy was shaped by period beliefs about character and leadership. Reprint.

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Recensione

Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

L'autore

Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. His 1969 book The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes, and was nominated for the National Book Award. His 1992 book The Radicalism of the American Revolution, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize. His 2009 book Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, won the 2010 New York Historical Society Prize in American History. Wood's other books include Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, and most recently, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, and he contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143112082
• ISBN 13: 9780143112082
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336