Founding Brothers

Book #4 was Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis. Or rahter, Book #4 was book #30 of I Am the Rain King's 50 books in a year challenge. (Man, it's amazing what the Internet will teach you. In looking for links about Ellis, I just read about his scandal at Mt Holyoke. Weird. Historians, of all people, you'd think would know better then to embellish your past...)

I am the rain king does an excellent job of summarizing and reviewing the book, so I won't add a ton to that. I completely agree that the book is fascinating, that it sheds a "real" light on who the founding fathers were - their perfections and imperfections - and gives some much needed context to the future political travails that were to follow that magnificent era. While I agree that the Hamilton-Burr chapter was the most interesting, I would've also ranked the moving of the capitol chapter high on my list, if for no other reason then i have always wondered why the White House is on Pennsylvania Avenue.

It made me really interested in reading more about the subject, both his longer book on Washington and other books on that general period of history - always the sign of a good book. Plus, who knew Jefferson was so crazy?