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A vivid account of leadership focusing on the first four Virginia presidents--George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe--from the bestselling historian and author of James Madison.
David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Walt Whitman's America- A Cultural Biography, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award. His other books include Beneath the American Renaissance (winner of the Christian Gauss Award), John Brown, Abolitionist, and Mightier than the Sword- Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. He is a regular book reviewer for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The Wall Street Journal.
“The narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the
uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and
ideological growing pains that elites of the post-revolutionary
decades put the country through. As a work of history, the book is
a disciplined, agreeably constructed synthesis. As a human interest
story it is no less agreeable.” –Andrew Burstein, The
Washington Post
“Bringing these men together as a group draws attention to how
their thought and action unfolded in response to new challenges and
dispels any illusion that they were a monolithic bloc. Cheney is an
adept writer who makes no wrong steps.”—Library Journal
"An accessible group portrait of George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe . . . Cheney selects
anecdotes wisely and writes gracefully. The result is an
informative introduction to four of America’s most important
founding fathers."—Publishers Weekly
"Debates over power and justice are as old—even older, really—than
the Republic, and Lynne Cheney has given us a thoughtful and
illuminating account of how a group of distinctive Americans,
all Virginians, confronted essential questions at the
beginning of our common journey.”—Jon Meacham, author of The
Soul of America
“From a plantation-rich cluster in colonial Virginia, four men were
cultured who would shape the birth of our nation. This wonderfully
readable narrative explores their complex relations with each other
and the way they wrestled imperfectly with reconciling their ideal
of liberty with their lives as slaveholders. The values and flaws
they ingrained in our nation are with us still today.”—Walter
Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs
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