What Is The Time Of Our Founding Fathers In Revolutionary Characters By Gordon S. Wood

Historian, Gordon S. Wood, takes the readers back to the the time of our founding fathers in Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different. His book enables us to critique our present political leaders based off the never forgotten achievements of the aristocrats who shaped an egalitarian society and politics. Wood figuratively paints eight portraits of self-made aristocrats who transformed a revolution into a prosperous country. He illuminates their lives with such interest and familiarity, one would think Wood was an observer among them. From this book, readers will understand how trials, wars, and critics all allowed men such as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Thomas Paine to create the identity of America that we

If the Founders were here today, they surely would be discouraged to see many non virtuous political leaders running our country. In order to recover the lost interests of our Founding Fathers, Americans would need to seek a virtuous government, one based on enlightenment principles. If only our present day leaders were more disinterested, we could be celebrating a new wave of virtuousness and revolutionary politics. There would even be a possibility that our current political leaders could hold a divine status just as the Founding Fathers have done and continue to hold throughout history. It is up to our current leaders to take on the heroic duties of our past leaders, to transcend and trump the status that they once held. Wood suggests that behind the legacies of our founders, is a critique of our own leaders. The Founders organized a model system that would not require a disinterested leader to run it, but as time has gone by, history has shown that in fact we do need a leader of their sort to effectively run our government. The revolutionary characters had a transforming power of intellectualism and policy that led to their own demise as Wood has