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The Founders on the Founders. Word Portraits from the American Revolutionary Era.
John P. . Ed(S): Kaminski
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Hardback. More than two centuries after the groundbreaking events of the American struggle for independence, its key figures strike us more as players in a myth than as people who lived, worked, and interacted with one another. This title profiles thirty of the era's best-known individuals, including Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton. Editor(s): Kaminski, John P. Num Pages: 624 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 127 x 39. Weight in Grams: 726.
More than two centuries after the groundbreaking events of the American struggle for independence, its key figures strike us more as players in a myth than as people who lived, worked, and interacted with one another. To recover the human dimension of the founders, we need look no further than their own words. Through a series of revealing quotations, historian John P. Kaminski profiles thirty of the era's best-known individuals, including Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Thomas Paine, and Patrick Henry ('all tongue without either head or heart,' according to Thomas Jefferson), as well as the early ... Read more
More than two centuries after the groundbreaking events of the American struggle for independence, its key figures strike us more as players in a myth than as people who lived, worked, and interacted with one another. To recover the human dimension of the founders, we need look no further than their own words. Through a series of revealing quotations, historian John P. Kaminski profiles thirty of the era's best-known individuals, including Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Thomas Paine, and Patrick Henry ('all tongue without either head or heart,' according to Thomas Jefferson), as well as the early ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927572
SKU
V9780813927572
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About John P. . Ed(S): Kaminski
John P. Kaminski is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the coeditor of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights and the editor of The Quotable Jefferson.
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