Founders on the Founders - Word Portraits From the American Revolutionary Era

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext To recover the human dimension of the Founding Fathers, historian John Kaminski profiles 30 of the era's best-known individuals--through a series of revealing quotations--including Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Thomas Paine, and Patrick Henry. Zusammenfassung 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: John P. Kaminski, John P. (EDT) Kaminski
• Collaboration: John P. Kaminski (Editeur)
• Edition: University of Virginia Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: à partir de 18 ans
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 15.11.2008
• EAN: 9780813927572
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-2757-2
• Pages: 624
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 216 mm x 38 mm
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays