Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation-Jack Rakove

Vintage Publishing

RevolutionariesInventing an American Nation\nAuthor(s): Jack Rakove\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Vintage\nISBN-13: 9780099551867, 978-0099551867\nSynopsis\nIn this remarkable book, Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Each portrait brims with fresh and fascinating insights: Washington as a flawed tactician but expert manager; Jack Laurens as a slave trader's son who developed a plan to recruit black soldiers; Jefferson as a powerful critic of Europe's social order but a voracious consumer of its culture. \n\nSpanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, Revolutionaries uses the stories of famous (and not so famous) men to capture - in a way no single biography ever could - the intensely creative period of the republic's founding.\n\nBy the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.