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The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character
Engelsk Paperback
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The American Revolution swept away old certainties and forced revolutionaries to consider what it meant to be American. Andrew Trees examines four attempts to answer the question of national identity that Americans faced in the wake of the Revolution. Through the writings of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, Trees explores a complicated political world in which boundaries between the personal and the political were fluid and ill-defined. Melding history and literary study, he shows how this unsettled landscape challenged and sometimes confounded the founders'' attempts to forge their own--and the nation''s--identity.


Trees traces the intimately linked shaping of self and country by four men distrustful of politics and yet operating in an increasingly democratic world. Jefferson sought to recast the political along the lines of friendship, while Hamilton hoped that honor would provide a secure foundation for self and country. Adams struggled to create a nation virtuous enough to sustain a republican government, and Madison worked to establish a government based on justice.


Giving a new context to the founders'' mission, Trees studies their contributions not simply as policy prescriptions but in terms of a more elusive and symbolic level of action. His work illuminates the tangled relationship among rhetoric, politics, self, and nation--as well as the larger question of national identity that remains with us today.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9780691122366
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0691122369
Udg. Dato:
9 jan 2005
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato:
9 jan 2005
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