The story of our nation's founding has been steadily distilled into the triumphs and tribulations of a handful of courageous men. We know them well: Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison--the Founders. Yet the new nation also owed its existence to an entire generation of patriots--those who, in the spirit of those tumultuous times, were fully aware of their own collective participation, their own collective sacrifice.

Now for the first time, bestselling author and master storyteller Ray Raphael relocates the epic in the ordinary to take a provocative new look at the origins of our nation. Deftly intertwining the histories of seven charismatic revolutionaries, FOUNDERS: THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU A NATION makes history come alive in all of its complexity and ambiguity. Raphael takes readers on an extraordinary adventure, from the beginnings of unrest in 1761 to the passage of the Bill of Rights thirty years later. No other account of Revolutionary America can match this unique combination of breadth and depth, spirit and balance, nuance and direct personal appeal.

A narrative tour de force, FOUNDERS returns us to the dynamic roots of American patriotism and unearths the story of a nation of the people, for the people, and by the people.

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