Lives of the Founding Fathers of the USA

This set of modern biographies treats five principal figures of the American founding: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. The volumes follow their paths from colonial life through revolution, constitution-making, and the first partisan contests of the republic - diplomacy, war, finance, and the presidency among the shared fields. Each book is a full life by a different historian rather than a single comparative essay. Typical matter includes independence, the Federalist experiment, and the rival ideas of government those men embodied. It is a biographical library of the early United States, not one monograph.

Bound in three-quarter cloth (each volume a different colour) with paper front board printed with subject’s portrait. Colour and black & white contemporary plates. Coloured endleaves. Brown four-volume slipcase with titled pasted paper side. This set was soon withdrawn from sale as the Alexander Hamilton title could not be published for copyright reasons. All Founding Fathers titles were also sold individually.