Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation

In this captivating book, bestselling historian Ray Raphael tells the vivid stories of seven dynamic historical figures from the country's earliest days, stories that anchor a sweeping, original, and intimate history of the entire Founding Era.

From the beginnings of unrest in 1761 through the passage of the Bill of Rights in 1788, this stirring account lets us follow the intertwined lives of George Washington and a private soldier in his army. Robert Morris, who rescued the nation from bankruptcy, goes head to head with Thomas Young, a country doctor and peripatetic revolutionary who incited rebellion in seven states. And we are moved by the challenges of poet and historian Mercy Otis Warren, the most politically engaged woman of her time; Timothy Bigelow, a blacksmith who helped topple British rule; and Henry Laurens, a conservative politician and slave owner with an abolitionist son.

Founders gives us a fresh and highly entertaining new history of the American Revolution and reveals an entire generation of patriots who pushed for independence, fought a war, and set the United States on its course.