Revolutionary Characters Hardback - 2006
by Wood, Gordon S.
Even when the greatness of the founding fathers isn't being debunked, it is a quality that feels very far away from us indeed
Revolutionary Characters offers a series of brilliantly illuminating studies of the men who came to be known as the founding fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together and gives it the cumulative power of a revelation is this idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Gordon Wood shows, who took the matter of character very, very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who understood the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral progress. They saw themselves as comprising the world's first true meritocracy, a natural aristocracy as opposed to the decadent Old World aristocracy of inherited wealth and station.
Gordon Wood's wondrous accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them. In so doing, he shows us that although a lot has changed in two hundred years, to an amazing degree the virtues these founders defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still.
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- Title Revolutionary Characters
- Author Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Press HC, The, New York
- Date 2006-05-18
- ISBN 9781594200939
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