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Published on: 2006-05-18
Released on: 2006-05-18
Original language: English

Even when the greatness of the founding fathers isn't being debunked, it is a quality that feels very far away from us indeed: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Co. seem as distant as marble faces carved high into a mountainside. We may marvel at the fact that fate placed such a talented cohort of political leaders in that one place, the east coast of North America, in colonies between Virginia and Massachusetts, and during that one fateful period, but that doesn't really help us explain it or teach us the proper lessons to draw from it. What did make the founders different Now, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that shows us, among many other things, just how much character did matter. Revolutionary Characters offers a series of brilliantly illuminating studies of the men who came to be known as the founding fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together and gives it the cumulative power of a revelation is this idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Gordon Wood shows, who took the matter of character very, very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who understood the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral progress. They saw themselves as comprising the world's first true meritocracy, a natural aristocracy as opposed to the decadent Old World aristocracy of inherited wealth and station. Gordon Wood's wondrous accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them. In so doing, he shows us that although a lot has changed in two hundred years, to an amazing degree the virtues these founders defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still. The Man Who Made the Computer Age Possible A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of strategy+business. Excerpted with permission from From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization ... Founding Fathers of the United States - Wikipedia The Founding Fathers of the United States are the individuals of the Thirteen British Colonies in North America who led the American Revolution against the authority ... The New Press The New Press mourns the loss of Edward J. Davis counsel to The New Press partner at the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and most importantly dear friend and ... The Archdruid Report The latter point is the one I find most amusing and also most curious. Maybe Im naive but its always seemed to me that if I ran across someone who was writing ... American Revolution - Wikipedia The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British ... A Hamilton critic on why the musical isnt so revolutionary. My argument is basically that the play does a lot of this thing that we call Founders Chic as a representational strategy. This is a way that writers of popular ... Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone - The New York ... The emails arrive late often after 1 a.m. tapped out on a secure BlackBerry from an email address known only to a few. The weary recipients know that ... Library of the Revolutionary War by John Robertson of ... TOP. ONLINE LIBRARY of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR. How-to Search What's New? Read me Engines A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Top SCAR History.org: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's ... History.org: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Official History and Citizenship Website. Williamsburg Virginia Avalon Project - U.S. Constitution Constitution of the United States - Preamble; Constitution of the United States - Article 1; Constitution of the United States - Article 2; Constitution of the United ...
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