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Virtue, Valor, & Vanity: The Founding Fathers and the Pursuit of Fame.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)
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ERIC BURNS--the slyly intelligent host of the media-criticism show Fox News Watch--has been writing what by now amounts to an impressive mini-bookshelf of works on American history. His latest book, Virtue, Valor, & Vanity: The Founding Fathers and the Pursuit of Fame (Arcade, 239 pp., $25), is an interesting examination of the psychology of the Founders--who, as statesmen-politicians, had ...
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