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<p>"I never indeed thought him an honest, frank-dealing man, but considered him as a crooked gun, or other perverted machine, whose aim or stroke you could never be sure of."—Thomas Jefferson on Aaron Burr</p> <p>"[A]lways an honest Man, often a wise one, but sometimes, and in some things, absolutely out of his senses."— Benjamin Franklin on John Adams</p> <p>"I do now know [Jefferson] to be one of the most artful, intriguing, industrious and double-faced politicians in all America."— John Nicholas to George Washington</p> <p>"I shall really regret to leave Mr. Jefferson, he is one of the choice ones of the Earth."— Abigail Adams</p> <p>More than two centuries after the ground-breaking events of the American struggle for independence, its key figures strike us more as players in a myth than as people who lived, worked, and interacted with one another. To recover the human dimension of the founders, we need look no further than their own words. Through a series of revealing quotations, historian John P. Kaminski profiles thirty of the era’s best-known individuals, including Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Thomas Paine, and Patrick Henry ("all tongue wi

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Author

John P. Kaminski

Publisher

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813927572

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.1 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14