A review by rhoelle
The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution by Dennis Brindell Fradin, Michael McCurdy

4.0

A good introduction to the signers of the Constitution, it should really have been called The Framers.

I'm not sure how they can call John Dickinson "the Penman of the Revolution" considering Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin and Gouverneur Morris.

Says that Robert Morris spent a million dollars of his own money on the Revolution. Actually it was closer to three-quarters of a million.

Says that John Adams fired James McHenry from the War Department because he was too "gentle a soul to run the war department", thereby ignoring his traitorous behavior to the president.

Strangely the chapter on Charles C. Pinckney says nothing about what he is most famous for, refusing to pay tribute to France during his stay as a minister there.

John Landon's chapter fails to mention that in 1798, Langdon assisted Oney Judge to evade Burwell Bassett, the nephew of George and Martha Washington, who had intended to kidnap Judge and return her to slavery with the Washingtons.

Oddly refers to Hamilton's wife as "Betsy" Schuyler.