{"product_id":"revolutionary-characters-what-made-the-founders-different","title":"Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, What made these men great, and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe life of each--Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine--is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48057461866685,"sku":"BS-TC0-112082","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780143112082-HD.jpg?v=1786973467","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/revolutionary-characters-what-made-the-founders-different","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}