Bibliograph

Founders as fathers, the private lives and politics of the American revolutionaries, Lorri Glover

Type

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Founders as fathers, the private lives and politics of the American revolutionaries, Lorri Glover

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Founders as fathers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

875999294

Responsibility statement

Lorri Glover

Sub title

the private lives and politics of the American revolutionaries

Summary

Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America<U+2019>s great Founding Fathers<U+2014>men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and intimate portrait, historian Lorri Glover brings to life the vexing, joyful, arduous, and sometimes tragic experiences of the architects of the American Republic who, while building a nation, were also raising families

Table Of Contents

The last colonial patriarchs -- Independence -- Sacrifice -- Liberty and power -- A "natural aristocracy" -- "All other persons" -- "Ourselves and our posterity" -- Reputation -- Epilogue: going home

Target audience

adult

Classification