Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation - Softcover

Raphael, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159558417X ISBN 13: 9781595584175

Publisher: The New Press, 2010

Synopsis

Historian Ray Raphael has chosen seven representative characters some famous, some unknown to anchor a sweeping new history of the entire Founding Era, from the beginnings of unrest in 1761 through the passage of the Bill of Rights thirty years later. Readers experience the Revolutionary War by following the lives of both George Washington and a private soldier in his army. America’s richest merchant, who rescued the nation from bankruptcy, goes head-to-head with a peripatetic revolutionary who incited rebellion in seven states. Rounding out the company is a richly nuanced cast of other characters, including Mercy Otis Warren, the most politically engaged woman of the times; a common village blacksmith; and a conservative slave owner, together with his abolitionist son. The culmination of Raphael’s extensive research into the history and meaning of our nation’s origins, Founders returns us to the dynamic roots of American patriotism.

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What historians say:

"Founders will find a secure place in American historical literature."
--Joyce Appleby, past president, Organization of American Historians and American Historical Association

"Dramatize, personalize, localize: this is the way Ray Raphael has brilliantly explored the American Revolution. Readers will devour this stirring account."
--Gary B. Nash, Director, National Center for History in the Schools

"In vivid prose and with clear thought, Ray Raphael illuminates the dramatic struggle for power within the Revolution."
--Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

"Raphael helps us feel the urgency of the choices, the fears, and the expectations of the Revolutionary generation."
--Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History, Baruch College & The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of Revolutionary Mothers

"An in-depth tableau of the emerging nation, Founders helps redefine our understanding of that most mythologized period in America's past."
--Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History

About the Author:

Ray Raphael has taught at a one-room public high school, Humboldt State University, and College of the Redwoods. His twelve books include Founding Myths, A People’s History of the American Revolution, and The First American Revolution.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 159558417X
• ISBN 13: 9781595584175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608