Founding Fathers: The Founding Brothers

The Founding Brothers reveal Ellis disagreement with contemporary historians on the role of politics in the shaping of the United States. Unlike many other people, Ellis regards the successes of the founding member of the United States as “god written destiny” rather than the struggle of the American Revolution. Unlike many other revolutions of its kind, the American Revolution was able to hold its infant nation together with little bloodshed despite failure of the Article of the Confederation and division of ideology within its founding member. These divisions would, however, ultimately end with the American Civil War. The founding of the United States and the very ideology behind it would continually be raised up to question when one began