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Founders : the people who brought you a nation

We know them well: Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison. They were the Founders, an intimate coterie of daring, brilliant men to whom we credit our nation's birth. But the new nation also owed its existence to the "body of the people," an entire generation of American patriots who pushed for independence, fought a war, and set the United States on its course. Placing these "other" Founders side by side with the traditional cast, celebrated author Ray Raphael follows the careers of seven vivid characters--some notable, some lowly--to anchor a sweeping new history of the en.

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