The founders on the founders : word portraits from the American revolutionary era / edited by John P. Kaminski.

Contributor Kaminski, John P.

Imprint:Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

Descriptionxxxiii, 589 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Note:Portraits included: Abigail Adams -- John Adams -- Samuel Adams -- Aaron Burr -- Samuel Chase -- George Clinton -- John Dickinson -- Oliver Ellsworth -- Benjamin Franklin -- Elbridge Gerry -- Alexander Hamilton -- John Hancock -- Patrick Henry -- John Jay -- Thomas Jefferson -- John Paul Jones -- Henry Knox -- Marquis de Lafayette -- Richard Henry Lee -- James Madison -- John Marshall -- James Monroe -- Gouverneur Morris -- Robert Morris -- Thomas Paine -- Benjamin Rush -- Roger Sherman -- George Washington -- Martha Washington -- James Wilson.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-546) and index.

Note:Profiles of thirty of the era's best known individuals through quotations from their contemporaries among the founders of the republic.

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