American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals During the Revolutionary Era

Author/Contributor(s):	Smith, Craig Bruce
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	08/01/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

."..in the early eighteenth century, ideals of honor and virtue were salient aspects of Revolutionary Americans' ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society, from the powdered-wig "founders" to college students, women, and African Americans. Focusing his study primarily on the prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution--notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington--Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating a continuing ethical ideology that still remains"--