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Founders as Fathers - The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries (Paperback)
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Founders as Fathers - The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries (Paperback)
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As the bold fathers of the American Revolution left behind their
private lives to become public nation-builders, what happened to
their families? Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored
how family life shaped the political careers of America's great
Founding Fathers-men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original
and intimate portrait, historian Lorri Glover brings to life the
vexing, joyful, arduous, and sometimes tragic experiences of the
architects of the American Republic who, while building a nation,
were also raising families. The costs and consequences for the
families of these Virginia leaders were great, Glover discovers:
the Revolution remade family life no less than it reinvented
political institutions. She describes the colonial households that
nurtured future revolutionaries, follows the development of
political and family values during the revolutionary years, and
shines new light on the radically transformed world that was
inherited by nineteenth-century descendants. Beautifully written
and replete with fascinating detail, this groundbreaking book is
the first to introduce us to the founders as fathers.
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