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100	1		_aWood, Gordon S.
245	1	0	_aRevolutionary characters : _bwhat made the founders different / _cGordon S. Wood.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2006.
300			_ax, 321 p. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-307) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: The founders and the Enlightenment -- The greatness of George Washington -- The invention of Benjamin Franklin -- The trials and tribulations of Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton and the making of a fiscal-military state -- Is there a "James Madison problem"? -- The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams -- Thomas Paine, America's first public intellectual -- The real treason of Aaron Burr -- The founders and the creation of modern public opinion.
520			_aA series of 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 is the idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Wood shows, who took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who considered the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral progress. They saw themselves as comprising the world's first meritocracy, as opposed to the decadent Old World aristocracy of inherited wealth and station. Historian Wood's 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, and that the virtues they defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still.--From publisher description.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _vBiography.
650		0	_aStatesmen _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aRevolutionaries _zUnited States _vBiography.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1775-1783.
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