Name: The Founding Fathers Reconsidered von R. B. Bernstein (Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School, Brooklyn, New York)
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The Founding Fathers Reconsidered Zusammenfassung

The Founding Fathers Reconsidered R. B. Bernstein (Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School, Brooklyn, New York)

Here is a vividly written and compact 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. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, 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-among them independence, federalism, equality, slavery, and the separation of church and state-that both shaped and circumscribed the founders' achievements as the United States sought its place in the world.

The Founding Fathers Reconsidered Bewertungen

Read Bernstein's book if you can. It's both a reminder of how fallible the Founding Fathers were-and yet how good they still look to us nearly a quarter of a millennium later. * Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic *

Über R. B. Bernstein (Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School, Brooklyn, New York)

R. B. Bernstein is Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School, and has written, edited, or co-edited nineteen books on American constitutional and legal history, including Thomas Jefferson.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction ; I. The History that Made the Founding Fathers ; The State of the Union ; Free-Born English Subjects ; The Intellectual World ; II. The History that the Founding Fathers Made ; Independence ; Constitution-Making ; Federalism ; Politics ; Church and State ; Equality, Inequality, and Slavery ; America in the World ; Part III. What History Made of the Founding Fathers ; Ancestor Worship? ; "Which Founding Father Are You?" ; The Dead Hand of the Past: Original Intent ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Chronology ; Further Reading

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GOR009607746

ISBN 13

9780199832576

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0199832579

Titel

The Founding Fathers Reconsidered R. B. Bernstein (Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School, Brooklyn, New York)

Autor

R. B. Bernstein (Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School, Brooklyn, New York)

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

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Broschiert

Verlag

Oxford University Press Inc

Datum

2011-09-22

Anzahl der Seiten

256

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Winner of Winner of the New York Law School's Otto Walter Prize for the Best Book of 2009 Finalist for the 2010 George Washington Book Prize.

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