Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (Icons of America)
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- Synopsis
- This New York Times bestseller offers &“an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all&” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal&’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men
- Copyright:
- 2003
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 205 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300127928
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780300101713
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 02/29/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Gore Vidal
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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