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A review by nilly00
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
medium-paced
4.0
At the end this book succeeds at what it intended to do, which is to paint a vivid image of the founding generation as they were the first few decades after independence through a series of vignettes that tie into each other: all political yet deeply personal to all the characters involved.
The whole effect gives you an idea of the characters of the grandest figures of the founding generation and the forces that animated them and peels back the curtain of mysticism that history has placed over them, and which they had no small part in stitching themselves.
Reading this book gives a singular impression of the difficulty of the intractable problems facing the founding generation as they steered the nascent republic and the toll it took on their relationships with each other. The book is rather fond of all the characters involved, although not hesitating in presenting all of their flaws truly.
The whole effect gives you an idea of the characters of the grandest figures of the founding generation and the forces that animated them and peels back the curtain of mysticism that history has placed over them, and which they had no small part in stitching themselves.
Reading this book gives a singular impression of the difficulty of the intractable problems facing the founding generation as they steered the nascent republic and the toll it took on their relationships with each other. The book is rather fond of all the characters involved, although not hesitating in presenting all of their flaws truly.