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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis
from Vintage

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Why am I even reading this?
  OK so I read this book for school and had to write about each chapter. After trying to get through the Preface, I discovered this:
  -one, Ellis feels the need to blather on needlessly. This book could have been easily been half the length had the author known the value of good editing
  -two, apparently he has never heard of organized writing. You do not talk about one thing, talk about another and then repeatedly go back and forth. It makes this even more confusing to follow along.
  -three, hey... more info

• A Primer for Further Study
  I am not a scholar in early American Republic, so there are simply aspects of this book I can not discuss. But I can say that for a reader who takes history seriously, and wants a quick introduction to some of the primary characters who populated the political history of that period, this is a fine book. Let me get my biggest complaint out of the way first. For the true novice in the history of the Republic, there is no attempt to create a narrative that introduces the central themes nor timeline. There is... more info

• A very entertaining must-read for all Americans
  I came to this book too after watching the suberb John Adams mini-series. I wanted to learn more about some of the other early leaders of our nation. The history I learned in grade school was fleshed out here and then some. All of the chapters dealing with different defining moments in the post-revolutionary period were interesting and entertaining. I appreciated the way the book was arranged in short chapters with the major players, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Burr, and Hamilton... more info

• I learned something new about a familiar subject
  Even though I'd seen and heard multiple items about the founding generation, I was pleasantly surprised that I learned something new from this work...namely that the discussion of the location of the new capital was seriously sidetracked by an abolitionist delegation's visit (which was even blessed by fellow abolitionist Ben Franklin shortly before his death). Highly Recommended, a great yarn.

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