R B Bernstein

The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a scholarly, yet accessible work, Bernstein reveals the Founding Fathers not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings who nevertheless achieved political greatness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780195338324
• ISBN-10: 0195338324
• Artikelnr.: 25844871

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The History that Made the Founding Fathers
The State of the Union
Free-Born English Subjects
The Intellectual World
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