| Description |
1 online resource (x, 324 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The last colonial patriarchs -- Independence -- Sacrifice -- Liberty and power -- A "natural aristocracy" -- "All other persons" -- "Ourselves and our posterity" -- Reputation -- Epilogue: going home. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Founding Fathers of the United States -- Family relationships.
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Founding Fathers of the United States. |
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Families. |
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Founding Fathers of the United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Biography.
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1783 |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809 -- Biography.
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| Chronological Term |
1783-1809 |
| Subject |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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Politics and government. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1809 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Glover, Lorri, 1967- Founders as fathers 9780300178609 (DLC) 2014014623 (OCoLC)875999294 |
| ISBN |
9780300210750 (electronic book) |
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0300210752 (electronic book) |
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9780300178609 |
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0300178603 |
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