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Publisher's Summary
A New York Times best seller, Founding Brothers is an engrossing work of nonfiction from National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph J. Ellis. It is a book that uncovers the substance behind many of our most cherished historical tales. Here are six fascinating, well-researched chapters involving such icons as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Each chapter illuminates a particular occurrence that helped determine the course of American history while the nation was still in its infancy. Witness the infamous duel between Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and a secret dinner party that ended the haggling over a site for a permanent national capital.
The Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, Joseph J. Ellis draws on his expertise to craft an engaging portrait of the men who shaped democracy. Nelson Runger, acclaimed for his narrations of nonfiction works, delivers a crisp reading that breathes life back into America's founders.
©2000 Joseph J. Ellis; (P)2001 Recorded Books, LLC
What the Critics Say
- Pulitzer Prize winner, History, 2001
"Lively and illuminating...leaves the reader with a visceral sense of a formative era in American life." (The New York Times)
"Lucid....Ellis has such command of the subject matter that it feels fresh, particularly as he segues from psychological to political, even to physical analysis.... Ellis's storytelling helps us more fully hear the Brothers' voices." (Business Week)
"Vivid and unforgettable...[an] enduring achievement." (The Boston Globe)
From AudioFile
FOUNDING BROTHERS, which won a Pulitzer Prize for history, paints a lively and graceful group portrait of the "revolutionary generation," giving us the minds and personalities of the men who shaped the American experiment in democracy, the first attempt to create a republic since the time of Caesar Augustus. Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and the Adamses come alive here as they did not in your high school textbooks. It's a portrait, too, of the intellectual and political forces that shaped our great documents and our institutions (the best and the worst) and is of entirely contemporary, as well as historical, interest. Nelson Runger reads with attention and acumen, doing the text complete justice. (c) AudioFile 2001
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