|
Books > History > American history
|
Buy Now
The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (Paperback)
Loot Price: R849
Discovery Miles 8 490
|
|
|
The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
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 demigods but as imperfect human
beings--people much like us--who nevertheless achieved political
greatness. They emerge here as men who sought to transcend their
intellectual world even as they were bound by its limits, men who
strove to lead the new nation even as they had to defer to the
great body of the people and learn with them the possibilities and
limitations of politics. Bernstein deftly traces the dynamic forces
that molded these men and their contemporaries as British colonists
in North America and as intellectual citizens of the Atlantic
civilization's Age of Enlightenment. He analyzes the American
Revolution, the framing and adoption of state and federal
constitutions, and the key concepts and problems--among them
independence, federalism, equality, slavery, and the separation of
church and state--that both shaped and circumscribed the founders'
achievements as the United States sought its place in the world.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(2)
