Revolutionary Characters

A New York Times bestseller! "Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best." — The Philadelphia Inquirer In 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. The life of each—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madis