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From popular historian Tom Fleming comes an intimate look at America''s founders - George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison - and the women who played critical roles in their lives and careers. Like public figures of today, they struggled to reconcile personal relationships with public duty, and were forced to deal with a media that was just as intrusive and inflammatory as it is today. Fleming examines the youthful Washington''s tortured love for the married Sarah Fairfax; Franklin''s two ''wives;'' Hamilton''s betrayal of his wife and their reconciliation; and how Madison was jilted by a fifteen year old, years before he met and married Dolley Payne Todd. The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers covers the early history of the United States from a different perspective - one that presents the Founding Fathers as human beings with fears, hopes and hearts that could be broken. Thomas Fleming is the author of more than 40 books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Perils of Peace. He has been president of the Society of American Historians and the PEN American Center. Mr. Fleming is a frequent guest on C-Span, PBS, A&E, and the History Channel. ''Thomas Fleming is one of our most interesting scholars of the Revolutionary period, and in his insightful latest work he does not disappoint ... A significant achievement.'' - Jay Winik, author of The Great Upheaval and April 1865
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Thomas Fleming is the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently, The Perils of Peace. He has been the president of the Society of American Historians and of PEN American Center. Mr. Fleming is a frequent guest on C-SPAN, PBS, A&E, and the History Channel. He lives in New York City.
