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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By lexo1941
The reader will have gathered by now that this book looks at some of the more illustrious American revolutionaries: Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Burr and to a lesser extent, Franklin. One of the other reviewers calls it 'academic in tone', hardly a good description for what feels more like a professor knocking off a rather chatty essay in old-fashioned mainstream historical writing. Ellis has decidedly not come to bury the founders, although he appears to share the general low opinion of Aaron Burr, and he's interesting about Jefferson's remarkable capacity for self-deception.As someone who knew very little about these figures, I was very surprised to learn about the depth and duration of some of the antagonisms between them. Everyday political discourse tends to conceal them behind a nimbus of reverence, and the rather stiff group portraits don't help. As a foreigner and an amateur student of US history, it was fascinating to read about the Adams-Jefferson split and subsequent reconciliation, or the power wielded by Abigail Adams during her husband's presidency, or the way that pretty much everyone seems to have hated Alexander Hamilton. The tenuous and uncertain nature of the first presidency, the way that most precedents had not yet been set, also comes across very clearly.Having said that, I suppose I wanted this to be something that it's not - a comprehensive account of who all these men were, where they came from and how they came to believe what they believed. This reads more like a book written for people who already know the basic story. Ellis is a bit sniffy in his foreword with some of the more radical interpretations of early US history, and presents his book as a kind of return to the mainstream; given that the American intellectual mainstream is currently well to the right, I was expecting him to be more hero-worshipping than he actually is. In fact he's fairly level-headed about the failure of the men of '76 to tackle the problem of slavery, and while he shows the reasons why they couldn't build anti-slavery resolutions into the Constitution (because the crucial southern states wouldn't have gone for it), he's sharp about the way even the more enlightened amongst them were uncomfortable even thinking about the idea. (Except Benjamin Franklin, who came out as a tough-minded abolitionist only weeks before his death - cheers, Ben, bit late though.)I'm not totally convinced that it's really Pulitzer material; aren't they meant to go to bigger, more magisterial works, not book-length essays? There's no original research here and not much in the way of fascinating reinterpretation, more like a confident and elegant restatement of conventional opinion. But maybe that in itself was a good idea.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
By Joe Sherry
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.Instead of trying to tell a sweeping account of the American Revolution and the early days of our Republic, Joseph Ellis took a different approach. Ellis decided to take a look at six different issues and events of the first decades of the United States. He did meticulous research on each of the issues and connected them to the larger context of American history, but the focus of each chapter was narrow enough so that we won't get lost in trying to figure out where everything fits in. Ellis attempts to take the myths and legends away from these early leaders and put them into a human context and a historical context. He succeeds at this. One thing to note, however, Ellis has a very academic style to his writing. While someone like David McCullough (also a Pulitzer Prize winner) weaves a story that flows and is fairly easy to read and move through, Ellis's academic prose makes for slower reading for comprehension.The first chapter deals with the Hamilton-Burr duel. All I knew about this was from the "Got Milk" commercial several years ago. Ellis details the known facts about what happened and does some detective work to put together as best as possible what truly happened. This was a very interesting chapter to start the book with and set the stage for how Ellis would construct his chapters. He takes conflicting accounts (in this case, from the supporters of Burr and Hamilton) and weaves them together taking all the evidence in account and tries to make the story fit.Other chapters deal with The Friendship of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, George Washington's Farewell Address, the rumor of a dinner which settled where the new Capitol would located, the Silence on the issue of slavery, and the collaborations of the Founders. This is a very interesting period in American History, and a vitally important one.I learned quite a bit about different parts of early American history and this book will serve as a jumping off point to get into other historical works so that I'll have a more expanded background for some of the subjects that will surely come up.-Joe Sherry
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By A customer
Ellis' work provides a series of snapshots that reveal some of the personal and political relationships that characterized the members of the revolutionary generation in the United States. Focusing on a few significant events, such as the infamous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, Ellis illuminates each incident with enlightening context that, when combined into a unique anthology of revolutionary tales, provide an excellent introduction into the life of the nascent American republic and its early leaders. Well-written and gripping in its contents, Founding Brothers serves as an entertaining and informative work of early American history.
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