Founding Feuds
The Rivalries, Clashes, and Conflicts That Forged a Nation

More of a 3.5, but I'll round up since it brought to light a few I hadn't known about & had some different perspectives on others. Overall, it did its job of highlighting just how turbulent US politics has always been. What we despair over today is just business as usual. Our Founding Fathers weren'......more

On the plus side Founding Feuds is a breezy account of the animosities between founders of the United States and others in their orbit involving issues important to the shaping of the country. Unfortunately the book too often is marred by misleading superficiality and inaccurate revisionism in pursu......more

I received a free Kindle copy of this book courtesy of Net Galley and Sourcebooks, the publisher. This was with the expectation that I would post a review on Net Galley, Goodreads, Amazon and my review blog. I also posted it to my Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus pages. I requested this bo......more

It is fairly inevitable given the great deal of attention that is given to our nation's Founding Fathers [1] that someone would seek to look at their feuds and quarrels as being a source of our nation's strength rather than a sign of the common fallen nature that they shared along with us.  As a per......more

I believe we have a tendency to look back on history as being a simpler time when people seemed a bit more civilized and cultured, and they had a bigger and broader picture in mind with more of an ability to set aside personal differences and viewpoints, compromise, and work together. This book large......more