Inventing a Nation

Washington, Adams, Jefferson (American Icons Series)

Paperback, 208 pages

English language

Published Aug. 11, 2004 by Yale University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-300-10592-6
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Fast, entertaining, and thought provoking.

If you read this as a history you will be disappointed. It covers some historical events, yes, but I believe this is better read as a commentary or reflection. Gore Vidal paints a very humanizing picture of the founding fathers of the US and highlights some parallels to a modern political (and judicial) reality.

Subjects

  • History
  • History - U.S.
  • History: American
  • USA
  • Political History
  • United States - 18th Century
  • United States - Antebellum Era
  • History / General
  • United States - General