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Name: Founding Brothers
Rating: 4.3 (4 reviews)
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
ISBN: 9780375405440

Founding Brothers

The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis

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Readers' Rating (183):

First Published:
Oct 1, 2000, 288 pages

Paperback:
Feb 2002, 304 pages

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- History, Current Affairs and Religion
- USA
- 18th Century
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Nathan

I'm 16 as well and had to read this for my history class. I admit there were a few words I had to look up and at times I was confused. The fact that this book does not have a plot like normal novels made it seem slow and dull at times. However I realize that if Ellis had written this book in novel style he could not have given so many facts and key insights into the past. Ellis wrote this book superbly and the only reason not to read it is if you are not as verbose as this author. It's a book that gives you new angles on the past and insight into how our nation was formed so well.

Motomy

neverread the book

Sarah

This book was so boring, when I tried tor ead I feel alsleep. If it had not been assigned for my A.P. Government class I would not have read it

jenn

this book was ok. very boring at first but then ok

Diana

Worth reading. Very entertaining and informative but hard to get through. Dull passages make it hard to turn the page.

Jacob Valentine

Good points but a boring book all around.

notsmartenough

I'm not 76

This book would be good if I knew big words.....but I don't. Also, I found it very repetitive and drawn out.

mandi

boring but has good facts

The book is super boring but it does have a few parts that kinda helped me understand what I was learning in school a little better. Like when he described the duel. But the rest just about put me to sleep with how boring it was I couldn't even finish it. It wasn't the big words or any thing it was just SO boring!!!!

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