Founding brothers by joseph ellis hardcover edition six chapters are presented none dependent on the others you can read them out of sequence the longest being about forty pages with the layout being similar to that used in the great book profiles in courage the togetherness and unity of purpose so necessary during the revolution begins to erode on the road to the constitution . Joseph ellis captures the heart and soul of the revolutionary generation with his aptly titled founding brothers a book that chronicles the approximately twenty year period that followed the ratification of the us constitution a period so dramatic that no novelist could have written it the book covers six key conflicts among the founders of this nation conflicts which typify their struggle to reconcile their disparate ideas on public policy it takes an in depth look at the . Joseph ellis sets out to depict the founding brothers washington jefferson burr hamilton franklin monroe and adams in what you may call their true light though the actions of this small group of political elites have left their mark our american history they were like you and i merely people with the some of the same flaws ellis does an excellent job of taking this group of extraordinary men and providing everyday insight into their lives successes and squabbles and helps to decode ho. Founding brothers by joseph j ellis is one of the best books about the founding fathers as a group that ive read unlike the history of the united states during the administration of thomas jefferson or his excellency george washington also by joseph j ellis founding brothers is a book about the group as a whole and the relationships between them not the actions of individual men