Joseph Ellis wrote a book of historical non-fictional events concentrating on key minutes both in post-progressive America and in the lives of the Founding Fathers. Ellis looks at how the particular connections of the Founding Fathers impacted, or were affected by, the turbulent period in which they lived. Isolated into seven segments, the book comprehends both what these men experienced, and how history has come to comprehend them. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on July 11, 1804 near Weehawken, New Jersey in a test of honor. Hamilton's subsequent death is inspected, and Ellis likewise examines how the duel uncovers the significance of individual reputation in the times of an early government. At a supper held in 1790, Thomas Jefferson,
