Not Your Father's Founders
An "Amended" Look at America's First Patriots
Published on 18. June 2012
288 pages
978-1-4405-4162-9 (ISBN)
Description
The founding fathers-reframed!
Tired of reading about stiff, snooze-worthy revolutionary rebels? How about lackluster wars and mind-numbing laws? Not Your Father's Founders breathes life back into history with dynamic profiles of the politicos, wartime heroes, and lesser-known but equally important players who built this nation.
Featuring hundreds of strange details and quirky stories, you'll love learning all about the thinkers, doers, and maintainers who spearheaded the rebellion. This re-read of American history will also keep you on your toes with entertaining facts, quotations, and revelations. For example, Samuel Adams' father was a merchant and brewer. Young Samuel worked for a while at the family brewery, but he did not have the head for it-or business in general.
The birth of our nation was anything but dull-and Not Your Father's Founders pays proper tribute to our country's creators with entertaining tales you'll never forget.
Tired of reading about stiff, snooze-worthy revolutionary rebels? How about lackluster wars and mind-numbing laws? Not Your Father's Founders breathes life back into history with dynamic profiles of the politicos, wartime heroes, and lesser-known but equally important players who built this nation.
Featuring hundreds of strange details and quirky stories, you'll love learning all about the thinkers, doers, and maintainers who spearheaded the rebellion. This re-read of American history will also keep you on your toes with entertaining facts, quotations, and revelations. For example, Samuel Adams' father was a merchant and brewer. Young Samuel worked for a while at the family brewery, but he did not have the head for it-or business in general.
The birth of our nation was anything but dull-and Not Your Father's Founders pays proper tribute to our country's creators with entertaining tales you'll never forget.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Author's Note
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Abigail Adams
- John Adams
- John Quincy Adams
- Samuel Adams
- Ethan Allen
- Penelope Barker
- Josiah Bartlett
- William Campbell
- Samuel Chase
- Henry Clay
- Lydia Darragh
- Silas Deane
- John Dickinson
- Benjamin Franklin
- Elbridge Gerry
- Nathanael Greene
- Alexander Hamilton
- John Hancock
- Benjamin Harrison
- Patrick Henry
- Joseph Hewes
- Stephen Hopkins
- John Jay
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Paul Jones
- Rufus King
- Henry Knox
- Arthur Lee
- Richard Henry Lee
- Philip Livingston
- Robert R. Livingston
- James Madison
- John Marshall
- James Monroe
- Gouverneur Morris
- Robert Morris
- Jeremiah O'Brien
- James Otis Jr.
- Thomas Paine
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- Caesar Rodney
- Benjamin Rush
- Haym Salomon
- Deborah Sampson
- Roger Sherman
- Thomas Sumter
- Benjamin Tallmadge
- James Thacher
- George Walton
- Joseph Warren
- Mercy Otis Warren
- George Washington
- Martha Washington
- John Witherspoon
- Appendix A: The Acts of King George III and Parliament
- Appendix B: Contributions of Women
- Copyright
