# Revolutionaries

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- Authors: [Jack Rakove](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-rakove)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-07-07

## Description

In this remarkable book, Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Each portrait brims with fresh and fascinating insights: Washington as a flawed tactician but expert manager; Jack Laurens as a slave trader's son who developed a plan to recruit black soldiers; Jefferson as a powerful critic of Europe's social order but a voracious consumer of its culture. Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, Revolutionaries uses the stories of famous (and not so famous) men to capture - in a way no single biography ever could - the intensely creative period of the republic's founding. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.

## Editions

### Revolutionaries

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-186-7
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2011-07-07
- Language: en_GB