{"product_id":"revolutionary-characters-what-made-the-founders-different","title":"Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times bestseller!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best.\" —The Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52526545502501,"sku":"9780143112082","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/5016\/9381\/files\/9780143112082.jpg?v=1780952263","url":"https:\/\/sillybunnysalem.com\/products\/revolutionary-characters-what-made-the-founders-different","provider":"Wicked Good Books | Silly Bunny","version":"1.0","type":"link"}