Revolutionaries : a new history of the invention of America

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Label

Revolutionaries : a new history of the invention of America

Title remainder

a new history of the invention of America

Statement of responsibility

Jack Rakove

Creator

• trueRakove, Jack N., 1947-

Subject

• trueDiplomats -- United States -- History -- 18th century
• trueIntellectual life -- United States -- 18th century
• trueNation-building
• truePoliticians -- United States -- History -- 18th century
• trueRevolutionaries -- United States -- History -- 18th century
• trueAmerican Revolution, 1775-1783
• Statesmen -- United States -- History -- 18th century
• trueUnited States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
• trueUnited States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
• trueRevolutions -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

In this remarkable book, the historian Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men were suddenly transformed into public careers--how Washington became a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliant policymaker. Rakove shakes off accepted notions of these men as godlike visionaries, focusing instead on the evolution of their ideas and the crystallizing of their purpose. In Revolutionaries, we see the founders before they were fully formed leaders, as individuals whose lives were radically altered by the explosive events of the mid-1770s. --from publisher description

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.3

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography