Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
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In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the ... The Washington Post - Jan Ellen Lewis Rakove's attentiveness to the Founders' foibles humanizes them at the same time that it underscores their collective achievement. No one revolutionary got everything right, but together "they carried the American colonies from resistance to revolution, held their own against the premier imperial power of the day, and then capped their visionary experiment by framing a Constitution whose origins and interpretation still preoccupy us over two centuries later." Although scholars will find little new in Rakove's book, he tells his story well, with a Madisonian appreciation for human frailty.
