Founders as fathers
Subtitle: the private lives and politics of the American revolutionaries
By: Lorri Glover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780300178609
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Politics and government; Founding Fathers of the United States; Biography; Family relationships
Other titles: Private lives and politics of the American revolutionaries
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The last colonial patriarchs; title: Independence; title: Sacrifice; title: Liberty and power; title: A "natural aristocracy"; title: "All other persons"; title: "Ourselves and our posterity"; title: Reputation; title: Epilogue: Going home.