Founding Fathers The Book turned movie, Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis, has seven parts; The Generation, The Duel, The Dinner, The Silence, The Farewell, The Collaboration and The Friendship, each showing us a key part of history that determined the present state of the United States of America. The book focuses on five main players including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and Aaron Burr as well as aspects of the rule of George Washington. Throughout the book, Ellis emphasizes that the foundation of the nation was built upon the will and ability of the founding brothers (and others) in settling issues that arose through various debates. This in turn caused the key players to attack each other personally through slander but nonetheless, no actual blood was spilled in the process. …show more content…
For example the private dinner that enabled the Hamilton and Madison have an agreement that the state’s debt would be dealt with by the federal government and in turn America’s capital would be moved to somewhere in the Potomac River area. There was also an attempt to deal with the issue of slavery by Congress that failed to succeed due to how the Northern states and Southern states differed on the issue. Aside from this, there were several events that led to shifting alliances that joined various founding brothers or broke them apart like when Washington and Hamilton had an alliance, or Madison had one with Jefferson, and so many others. Aside from this, we also see how various sides were formed. This is especially shown by how Hamilton stood for a centralized government and how Jefferson was more of a republican (Bobrick,