Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

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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.

• ISBN13: 9780143112082
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An uncommon light - M. S. Law - Capitol of Procrasti.
Gordon Wood reveals the founders in an uncommon light, attempting to show them as they were, rather than as these monolithic, semi-mythic creations. He does well, and the writing is engaging. My favorite sections were on George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Certainly worth reading.