TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trees,Andrew S.
TI  - The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character
SN  - 9780691233536
U1  - 973.4 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alien and Sedition Acts
KW  - American Revolution
KW  - Antifederalists
KW  - Bingham, William
KW  - Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
KW  - Burroughs, Stephen
KW  - Cabot, George
KW  - Charlotte Temple
KW  - Constitutional Convention
KW  - Continental Congress
KW  - Cruger, Catherine Church
KW  - Declaration of Independence
KW  - Euripides
KW  - Federalist Papers
KW  - Federalists
KW  - Freneau, Philip
KW  - Fries Rebellion
KW  - Gender
KW  - Gentility
KW  - Gerry, Elbridge
KW  - Granger, Gideon
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Habermas, Jurgen
KW  - Hippolytus
KW  - Hutcheson, Frances
KW  - Irving, Washington
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas
KW  - Johnson, Samuel
KW  - King, Rufus
KW  - Knox, Henry
KW  - Livingston, Susanna
KW  - Madison, Dolley
KW  - Monroe, James
KW  - Muhlenberg, Frederick
KW  - Nullification
KW  - Pickering, Timothy
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Publius
KW  - Republicanism
KW  - Scottish enlightenment
KW  - Sterne, Laurence
KW  - Tazewell, Henry
KW  - Venable, Abraham
KW  - Warner, Michael
KW  - Warren, James
KW  - Washington, George
KW  - Webster, Noah
KW  - Whiskey Rebellion
KW  - Wills, Garry
KW  - Wolcott, Oliver
KW  - XYZ Affair
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction --; ONE Friendship --; TWO Honor --; THREE Virtue --; FOUR Justice --; CONCLUSION Veneration --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - The American Revolution swept away old certainties and forced revolutionaries to consider what it meant to be American. Andrew Trees examines four attempts to answer the question of national identity that Americans faced in the wake of the Revolution. Through the writings of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, Trees explores a complicated political world in which boundaries between the personal and the political were fluid and ill-defined. Melding history and literary study, he shows how this unsettled landscape challenged and sometimes confounded the founders' attempts to forge their own--and the nation's--identity. Trees traces the intimately linked shaping of self and country by four men distrustful of politics and yet operating in an increasingly democratic world. Jefferson sought to recast the political along the lines of friendship, while Hamilton hoped that honor would provide a secure foundation for self and country. Adams struggled to create a nation virtuous enough to sustain a republican government, and Madison worked to establish a government based on justice. Giving a new context to the founders' mission, Trees studies their contributions not simply as policy prescriptions but in terms of a more elusive and symbolic level of action. His work illuminates the tangled relationship among rhetoric, politics, self, and nation--as well as the larger question of national identity that remains with us today
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691233536?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691233536
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