Covering a range of issues, debates, and controversies, a distinguished author shares his reflections on the attitudes of the founding fathers--including Washington, Adams, Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, and Hamilton--on such topics as terrorism, women's rights, gun control, free trade, and gays in the military.
Richard Brookhiser is the author of What Would the Founders Do?, Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, American, and America’s First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918. He wrote and hosted the critically acclaimed PBS documentary Rediscovering George Washington, is a columnist for TIME magazine, and is a senior editor of National Review. He has written for The New Yorker and the New York Times. He lives in New York City.