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R. B. Bernstein The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback). 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. Further DetailsTitle: The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction Condition: New EAN: 9780190273514 Format: Paperback Author: R. B. Bernstein ISBN-10: 0190273518 ISBN: 9780190273514 Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Release Date: 12/10/2015 Description: The Founding Fathers is a concise, 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. 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 to transcend their intellectual world even as they were bound by its limits, men who strove to lead the new nation even as they had to defer to the great body of the people and learn with them the possibilities and limitations of politics. Bernstein deftly traces the dynamic forces that molded these men and their contemporaries as British colonists in North America and as intellectual citizens of the Atlantic civilization's Age of Enlightenment. He analyzes the American Revolution, the framing and adoption of state and federal constitutions, and the key concepts and problems that both shaped and circumscribed the founders' achievements as the United States sought its place in the world. Finally, he charts the shifting reputations of the founders and examines the specific ways that interpreters of the Constitution have used the Founding Fathers. A masterly blend of old and new scholarship, brimming with apt description and insightful analysis, this book offers a digestible account of how the Founding Fathers were formed, what they did, and how generations of Americans have viewed them. Genre: History Topic: Military History, Biography Item Height: 173mm Item Length: 115mm Item Width: 11mm Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Series: Very Short Introductions Item Weight: 136g Release Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
