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The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817 1st Edition

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (November 11, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393240215
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393240214
  • Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.6 x 9.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsDON'T PASS UP THIS BOOK AND REVIEW
By RHF on January 20, 2014
Format: Hardcover
Myron Magnet has written a most delightfully surprising and revealing book through his unique format of a brief trenchant biographical sketch of each founder and a splendid reasonably detailed description of the architecture,vision and personal pursuits of each of them in relation to their beloved homes and occupations.

This is a book for any experienced or general reader interested in early American history that includes the founding generation. Through Magnet's beautiful descriptive prose each chapter brings alive each character and his sense of place and self worth.
Just the introduction alone is worth the price of this book - here we are introduced in a cogent manner to the primary cause of rebellion: political liberty with economic and social liberties deriving their just causes from the former.

Another surprise was the wonderful revelation of the early apt and artful radical writings of William Livingston in Chapter 1, Conceived in Liberty: William Livingston and the Case for Revolution. This book has a number of little known facts of each of the covered founders by virtue of the author's careful persistent and perspicacious research and applied diligent reason.

I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND ADDING , the popular book, "Houses of the Founding Fathers:The Men Who Made America and the Way They Lived" by Hugh Howard, Roger Strauss III,as an companion reading after each chapter for further personal and visual history that can add immense depth and pleasure for the reader. As a further delightful extension consider "Founders As Fathers: The Private Lives And Politics Of The American Revolutionaries" by Lorri Glover that depicts several of the most prominent Virginian American Revolutionary Patriots.

RHF
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Founders at Home - Magnificent!
By Portato on December 8, 2013
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A brilliantly written and researched book. An absolutely unique approach to a familiar subject. How the founders homes defined their character and personalities.
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5.0 out of 5 starsOutstanding history, novel perspective.
By gail schumacher on February 2, 2014
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Excellently written; a pleasure to read. I have a long interest in colonial American history and our founding. Magnet pulls this period and it's key influential leaders together in a novel way. By using their homes to reflect their persona he presents his subjects and their actions in ways I've not read in other biographies or histories of the period. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsVery Interesting history
By Tracie B Bernin on January 30, 2014
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This book is filled with a lot of interesting historical information. A very good read. Nice pictures as well. I will be purchasing this book for other family and friends interested in American History.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWonderful
By Patriot on November 7, 2013
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An original approach to a great and enduring subject. Magnet writes so gracefully and with such deep knowledge that you're swept into the thoughts and lives of the greatest Americans. Loved this book.
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4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent book
By Joseph V. Rafferty on January 14, 2014
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This book is unique in that it tells stories about how 9 Founding Fathers lived their lives, providing insights that are not widely known.
Despite reading extensively about the Founding period, I learned much new, interesting and relevant information about them and their famiies.
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2.0 out of 5 starsFrustrating
By Joe G. Bax on December 18, 2013
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This is a frustrating book. I bought it to learn something about how the Founders built, designed and lived in their homes. I was looking for something like "Jefferson and Monticello" by McLaughlin ( an excellent book). What I got was a Cliff Note version of several biographies. Perhaps it is just mistitled. The author loves to include long quotes from the Founders. So long, that at times I wondered why I did not just buy their book. The frustrating part is that this author can write. He is a very good story teller.....if he shortened or left out the long quotes. If he were to write a biography of a Founder, it would probably be very good. This book just is not what it was represented to be.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book!
By John A. James on January 12, 2014
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More educational than entertaining but well worth the read. Makes you appreciate the founding fathers much more than you do now.
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I could only imagine what the founders went through

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"Events unfold because people make choices, show courage (or not), have talents, have luck, have certain beliefs, not because of impersonal, ineluctable forces. Read more

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The domestic and social life of the founders. Well written.

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Magnet's thesis is that the greatness of the founders in their public lives reflects the virtue of their characters in their private lives, and that is well illustrated by the... Read more

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Love it.

Published 15 months ago by D. Eva
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A bit dry

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Excellent - well written - worth reading.

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