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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction [#460]
The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction [#460]
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  • Contemporary relevance: In an era when interpreters of the Constitution refer to themselves as "strict constructionists," we need to know who the Founding Fathers actually were, what they believed, and what they meant
  • Provides important context for understanding the founding fathers, as well as their impact on the present day

   
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 human beings—people much like us—who nevertheless achieved political greatness. They emerge here as men who sought to transcend their intellectual world even as they were bound by its limits, men who strove to lead the new nation even as they had to defer to the great body of the people and learn with them the possibilities and limitations of politics. Bernstein deftly traces the dynamic forces that molded these men and their contemporaries as British colonists in North America and as intellectual citizens of the Atlantic civilization's Age of Enlightenment. He analyzes the American Revolution, the framing and adoption of state and federal constitutions, and the key concepts and problems that both shaped and circumscribed the founders' achievements as the United States sought its place in the world. Finally, he charts the shifting reputations of the founders and examines the specific ways that interpreters of the Constitution have used the Founding Fathers. 

A masterly blend of old and new scholarship, brimming with apt description and insightful analysis, this book offers a digestible account of how the Founding Fathers were formed, what they did, and how generations of Americans have viewed them.

目次: 

Preface
1 Words, Images, Meanings
2 Contexts: The History That Made the Founding Fathers
3 Achievements and Challenges: The History the Founding Fathers Made
4 Legacies: What History Has Made of the Founding Fathers
Epilogue: The Founding Fathers, History, and Us
Chronology
Appendix
References
Further Reading
Index

著者について: 

R. B. Bernstein, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School
 
Distinguished adjunct professor of law, New York Law School and lecturer in political science, City College of New York, Bernstein has written, edited, or co-edited nineteen books on American constitutional and legal history, including Thomas Jefferson (OUP, 2003).

商品情報

ISBN : 9780190273514

著者: 
R. B. Bernstein
ページ
184 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2015年12月
シリーズ
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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction [#460]

The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction [#460]

The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction [#460]