Ebook {Epub PDF} Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation by Ray Raphael

Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison―together they are best known as an intimate cadre of daring, brilliant men credited with /5(18). 8 rows · FOUNDERS: The People Who Brought You a Nation User Review - Kirkus. Popular historian Image Credits: 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/5(18).

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation. The New Press, Starred Review in KIRKUS, 3/15/09 "[A] highly readable history about the messy work of revolution and nation-buildingRaphael's scholarship and scrupulously fair treatment deepens our understanding and appreciation of what our ancestors wrought. Ray Raphael will present his new book, Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation, at Northtown Books on Friday, June 12 at 7 pm. Founders is Raphael's largest and most ambitious book, a daring attempt to recreate an "honest history" of our nation's founding by skipping over nineteenth century distortions and returning to primary sources from Revolutionary times. In , in Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation, Raphael developed an original synthesis of the Founding Era, blending his previous bottom-up approach into the traditional national narrative. His seven lead characters — some high, some low — include both General George Washington and Private Joseph Plumb Martin, and both Robert.

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation () is a sweeping narrative that starts with the unrest in and ends with the ratification of the Bill of Rights thirty years later. Raphael focuses on seven lead characters, moving back and forth between leading figures “inside chambers” and the people “out-of-doors.”. Ray Raphael's Founders and Paul Gilje's The Making of the American Republic both cover roughly the same period of early American history. Raphael begins in with Washington's ill-fated mission to the Ohio country and essentially ends with the ratification of the Bill of Rights in Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison―together they are best known as an intimate cadre of daring, brilliant men credited with our nation's founding. But does this group tell the whole story?.