An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic - John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.ĭuring the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation - and perhaps any - came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. This entry was posted in Patron Picks, Reviews and tagged 50th anniversary book challenge, current affairs, history, nonfiction, presidents, revolutionary war.
in Publishing from Rosemont College I’m currently a web writing manager at Hibu, a digital marketing company. She graduated from Southern Virginia University with a B.A. She’s been reading classics, literary fiction, mysteries, children’s lit, narrative nonfiction, and much more ever since. That’s when she finished her first chapter book, Bruce Coville’s The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed. Check availability on Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary GenerationĪbout the reviewer: Angela DeMott’s addiction to reading must have started sometime around second grade. While Ellis’ wordy style required a more disciplined approach, his passion for and knowledge of the subject, as well as his subtle wit, lit up each page for me. At its core, this book is an examination of how history’s key movers and shakers reacted and what their reactions meant for future generations. Founding Brothers is so much more than mere portraits (however interesting they may be) of the drafters of the constitution. history, Ellis argues that there were as many, if not more, interpretations of the revolutionary spirit of 1776 (and what that actually entailed for the growing nation) as there are beliefs on what it means to be an American today Ellis also argues that our first political leaders didn’t really know what they were doing (How could they have? There was no precedent!) yet their gut instincts and passion still lead us, eventually, to green pastures.įounding Brothers was an extremely readable commentary on Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Adams, as well as (and this is what makes this book noteworthy) our current state of affairs. By way of analyzing six significant moments in U.S. In addition, it is a commentary on our current political, economic, and social situation.
Joseph Ellis’ Founding Brothers has a lot to say about the Revolutionary era. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J.
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