Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

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“Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” by Joseph Ellis is a book that focuses on the moments of post-revolutionary America and the life of the founding fathers. In this book, the author carefully examines how some of the connection of the founding brothers were inspired by the stormy time in which they existed. The book also focuses on some of the most important leaders like John Adams, Franklin Benjamin, and James Madison among others. The book focuses on the post-revolutionary America and the lives of the founding brothers. Ellis also examines how the relationships of the founding brothers were influenced by the turbulent period in which they existed.
According to Ellis, all the men who became the founding brothers cultivated their relations with one another as friends. They fought beside one another, owned the spirit of "76", and formed a principled brotherhood determined on freedom (Ellis, 2002). However after several years had passed, their friendship started to decline. For example, the close friendship between Washington and Hamilton was very imperative towards the creation of the Federalist Party. In the book, it is illustrated how Jefferson exchanged a friendship with Adams for political partnership with Madison. This shows how political obsessions do shift. Further, the friendship between Adams and Jefferson is central in the book. In this book, Ellis has explored how politics destroyed some of the strong friendships that were formed during the revolutionary period and how time enhanced the renewal of these friendships. The main intention of Ellis was to illustrate how friendship was distressed by the tempestuous times in which these personalities existed and created the régime.
In chapter three of the book, slavery is the taboo discussion (Ellis, 2002). The author examines how the perspectives of the Northerners and Southerners were ignored for decades by the constitution. In this chapter, Ellis considers the founding brothers and their stand in slavery but proposes that all of them except Franklin who was worried about the endurance of the breakable union instead of forcing a query that could have resulted in separation. The author recommends that the founding brothers did not address the issue of slavery because they were morally undecided and were embodied with anxiety over the existence of the republican.
The author uses the founding brothers to relate to various historical events and the nature of history. The simple approach of the author in writing the founding brothers is hindsight and foresight. Ellis writes with a sense of determination to show the apprehension the founding fathers were experiencing when they were creating the new republic. They were not sure if their plan would prosper because nothing like that was accomplished before. This explains how some disagreements later broke their friendship. In hindsight, the author tries to relate some of the lessons learned from historical documentation and research. Using this tactic, Ellis tries to illustrate why various historical stories have persisted while others have not. In this case, the author tries to show why the revolution version...