Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Pulitzer Prize winning author, Joseph J. Ellis focuses on six crucial moments in the life of the new nation, including a secret dinner at which the seat of the nation’s capital was determined; Washington’s precedent-setting Farewell Address; and the Hamilton and Burr duel. Throughout the text, Ellis explains the personal, face-to-face nature of early American politics. (Softcover, 288 pages)