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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Glover, Lorri (1967-....)
Titre(s) : Founders as fathers [Texte imprimé] : the private lives and politics of the American revolutionaries / Lorri Glover
Publication : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University Press, copyright 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-324 p.) [8 p. de pl.] : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political
careers of America's great Founding Fathers--men like George Mason, Patrick Henry,
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and intimate
portrait, historian Lorri Glover brings to life the vexing, joyful, arduous, and sometimes
tragic experiences of the architects of the American Republic who, while building
a nation, were also raising families. The costs and consequences for the families
of these Virginia leaders were great, Glover discovers: the Revolution remade family
life no less than it reinvented political institutions. She describes the colonial
households that nurtured future revolutionaries, follows the development of political
and family values during the revolutionary years, and shines new light on the radically
transformed world that was inherited by nineteenth-century descendants.--From publisher
description
Sujet(s) : Pères fondateurs des États-Unis -- Famille
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- 1775-1783
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- 1783-1789
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.3 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1775-1789
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300178609. - ISBN 0300178603. - ISBN 9780300219746. - ISBN 0300219741 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45706782x
Notice n° :
FRBNF45706782
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The last colonial patriarchs ; Independence ; Sacrifice ; Liberty and power ;
A "natural aristocracy" ; "All other persons" ; "Ourselves and our posterity" ;
Reputation ; Epilogue: going home.
