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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Inventing a Nation Washington Adams Jefferson - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Gore Vidal, Paul Hecht (Narrator) Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. — In Fathers of the Republic, Vidal transports the reader into t... more »he 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 Vidal's 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.
Read by Paul Hecht and the author. Unabridged: 5 sound discs (5 hr., 15 min.)« less