The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character

by Andrew S. Trees

Book Overview

The American Revolution swept away old certainties and forced revolutionaries to consider what it meant to be American. Andrew Trees examines four attempts to answer the question of national identity that Americans faced in the wake of the Revolution. Through the writings of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, Trees explores a complicated political world in which boundaries between the personal and the political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691122369
• ISBN13: 9780691122366
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"