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The Good Fight The Feuds of the Founding Fathers and How They Shaped the Nation

The Good Fight The Feuds of the Founding Fathers and How They Shaped the Nation

Reviewed by: Phyllis Fuchs - Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: April 30, 2018

Review

Its colorful and humorous book jacket is eye catching and displays two of our founding fathers arguing with one another which is the subject of this small-sized book. The jacket is a first glimpse of The Good Fight, which offers a good and an informal look at four of those founding fathers , Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and Hamilton in four stories that highlight each. The one hundred and eighteen pages have clever, cartoon like pen and ink drawings throughout , generous sized easy-to-read type, and a casual writing style, as in describing Benjamin Franklin as "America's favorite can-do guy". The stories are not new ones although who knew that Thomas Jefferson loved to shop or remembers that George Washington was first an English subject since he was born in Virginia when it was still an English colony? Notes and sources including online resources and a selected bibliography are appended. Lively and informative reading, the book is recommended to public and school libraries, to teachers of the American revolution, and to nine to twelve year old students especially interested in early United States history.

Overall Book Score: very good