I have read a lot about the Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States, and but for a powerful description of the Incident at Weehawken in the first section of Joseph Ellis’s Founding Brothers, Hamilton has always seemed to play a role somewhere in the wings – the egotistical near-monarchist who nobody liked. Read More …
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Book review: The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis
Joseph J. Ellis is one of those reliable chroniclers of American history – in the company of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough – who cover the most familiar historical ground, yet somehow reshape it into something new. The Quartet only reinforces this reputation. Here, Ellis examines the studied combination of efforts from four “nationalists” – George Washington, John Jay, Read More …