TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vidal, Gore,
TI  - Inventing a nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson 
SN  - 300101716
AV  - E 302.1 .V667 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Statesmen
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes index
N2  - In Inventing a Nation, Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidals splendid and percipient prose, in ways we have not up to now--their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. www.alibris.com
ER  -