Description: Sex and the Founding Fathers : The American Quest for a Relatable Past, Hardcover by Foster, Thomas A., ISBN 1439911029, ISBN-13 9781439911020, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Biographers, journalists, and satirists have long used the subject of sex to define the masculine character and political authority of America's Founding Fathers. Tracing these commentaries on the Revolutionary Era's major political figures in Sex and the Founding Fathers, Thomas Foster shows how continual attempts to reveal the true character of these men instead exposes much more about Americans and American culture than about the Founders themselves. Sex and the Founding Fathers examines the remarkable and varied assessments of the intimate lives of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouverneur Morris from their own time to ours. Interpretations can change radically; consider how Jefferson has been variously idealized as a chaste widower, condemned as a child molester, and recently celebrated as a multicultural hero. Foster considers the public and private images of these generally romanticized leaders to show how each generation uses them to reshape and reinforce American civic and national identity.
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Book Title: Sex and the Founding Fathers : the American Quest for a Relatable Past
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Gender Studies, Presidents & Heads of State
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Author: Thomas A. Foster
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Sexuality Studies
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
