The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

by R.B. Bernstein

Book Overview

Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen.

In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195338324
• ISBN13: 9780195338324
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"