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Founding Brothers

The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis

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Todd (08/12/22)

One of the best political/history books I have ever read

This book is a real treasure. It puts current events into perspective. I hear people talking about "the good ole days" of politics and political cooperation and insist they read this book.

AlexisDT (12/20/17)

Amazing book!

To the negative reviewers I would ask a question. What is the theme of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation?

AP US student (09/27/15)

excruciating

This book was assigned to me for my advanced placement US history summer homework. This was a very bias and bland text. I do not recommend this to anyone unless you like headaches.

Jared W. (08/06/15)

Very Intresting

This book puts the early years of the American Republic in a new light for me. Mr. Ellis is a genius.

Gift (08/13/13)

Why

I had to read this book for school and I literally wanted to cry it took me forever because I fell asleep every time picked it up. HORRIBLE BOOK.

Tyler (01/27/13)

Awful

Over written,could be re-written in 40 pages, redundant and biased. I would not recommend to anyone.

... (09/09/12)

Horrendous book

I have read PLENTY of college level books that are sort of boring but I was still able to get through, but this that I'm reading for AP US cannot even be explained in words how terrible it is. The author basically just took every word and found the most complex, difficult synonym for it, to falsify his intelligence. And let me say, I'm by no means dumb and I could NOT understand this book one bit. It also took me 4 hours to get through 50 pages due to how boring it is.

Relle (10/19/11)

BoringBoringBoringBoringBoring

THE worst book I have read. Excessively repetitive, unnecessarily long, and freakishly difficult to understand. Why do smart people want to look smarter?! My high school brother has a textbook that has the same material...only his book is more interesting to read than this piece of junk!. Pure garbage

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