Author: Wood, Gordon S
Publication year: 2006.
Language: English
Call Number E302.5 .W55 2006
Media class: Book
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press
ISBN: 1594200939 9781594200939
Extent: x, 321 p. ; 25 cm.
Description: The founders and the enlightenment -- The greatness of George Washington -- The invention of Benjamin Franklin -- The trials and tribulations of Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton and the making of a fiscal-military state -- Is there a "James Madison problem"? -- The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams -- Thomas Paine, America's first public intellectual -- The real treason of Aaron Burr -- The founders and the creation of modern public opinion.