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

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.

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• Publication Date: May 18, 2006
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• Print Length: 336 Pages
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