Virtue, Valor, and Vanity
The Inside Story of the Founding Fathers and the Price of a More Perfect Union
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Virtue, Valor, and Vanity
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Narrated by:
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Allen O'Reilly
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Written by:
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Eric Burns
About this listen
Their ambitions, intrigues, and jealousies shaped the birth of our nation, but they overcame their foibles and imperfections to throw off the chains of tyranny and form a more perfect union. We think of them now as faces on money or statues on pedestals, and, as Burns shows here in luminous prose, thats exactly what they wanted to be. They all possessed astonishing brilliance, expansive egos, and more than just a little vanity. In this fresh perspective, Burns brings the Founding Fathers down off their pedestals to reveal the flesh-and-blood men - vain and modest, sensitive and stubborn, brilliant and ambitious - who overcame their faults and squabbles to establish a new nation that would shine as a paragon of governance. For the armchair historian, here is an exciting new look at our countrys origins.
©2007 Eric Burns (P)2012 Audible, Inc.