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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. By Joseph J. Ellis. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

In Founding Brothers, Ellis looks at the nation's formative years following the ratification of the Constitution, and examines the personalities involved and the actions taken that were involved in keeping the ship of state afloat. This book is not an exhaustive biography of a single figure but rather a series of essays that describe the era. As Ellis says in his forward, "It is not by the direct method of scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict a singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank and rear; he will shoot a sudden revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over the great oceans of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some......

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