Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers The

In The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books historian Thomas Fleming author of The Perils of Peace offers a fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washington Franklin Adams Jefferson Hamilton and Madison. Fleming nimbly takes readers through a great deal of early American history as our founding fathers struggle to reconcile the private and public–and often deal with a media every bit as gossip-seeking and inflammatory as ours today.