founding brothers
...ilton, Aaron Burr, and Ben Franklin. In this book Joseph Ellis also discusses how the events that happened were monumental in the forming of America, but was done so in a not so Constitutional manner. The sixth, and final, chapter is devoted to the revival of John Adams’ and Thomas Jefferson’s friendship after they battled each other in the 1800 Presidential election. In Founding Brothers, Ellis’s thesis mainly states that the success of the United States was not always as much of a predetermined conclusion as it is today. Linked to that thesis was the Brothers belief that in order for the U.S. to be seen as legitimate by other, potentially threatening nations, all of the states would have to remain together. The Brothers believed that any dispute among the states would be a weakness, and thus all they fought for during the revolution would have been for nothing. While reading the first chapter of this book, I found that Jefferson, Madison, an...