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Founding fathers ellis7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() During the decade that followed, the Founding Fathers-re-examined here as Founding Brothers. Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 9780571212170 Weight: 416 g Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 22 mm You may also be interested in. The United States was more a fragile hope than a reality in 1790. The Founding Fathers: Their Achievement and Failures. Ellis argues that the checks and balances that permitted the infant American republic to endure were primarily intensely personal, rooted in the interaction of leaders with quite different values and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history. Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time for killing in a duel Alexander Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger-than-life, and America's only truly indispensable figure. ![]()
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