Mount Vernon Bookshop DVD's, CD's and Videos Gifts & Reproductions Furniture & Home Décor Children's Corner In the Garden Christmas at Mount Vernon Gourmet Gifts New! New! New! Sale! Sale! Sale! Teaching Resources Membership Donate Home   Mount Vernon Book Shop / American History Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different By Gordon S. Wood. ISBN 1-59420-093-9. Copyright 2006. Hardcover with 321 pages including notes and index.   A series of studies of the lives of the founding fathers; men who took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who understood the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral progress. They saw themselves as comprising the world’s first true meritocracy, a natural aristocracy as opposed to the decadent Old World aristocracy of inherited wealth and station. Item #: 13014 Price: $25.95 Qty: Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington Founding Mothers What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers

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