The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction

by Richard B Bernstein and Richard B. Bernstein

Book Overview

The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible 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.

R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining demigods but as imperfect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190273518
• ISBN13: 9780190273514
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.5"