George Washington's Secret Six Summary

This book was co-authored by Brian Kilmeade, New York native. Kilmeade broadcasted for six hours a day during the average work week. He has written three books including George Washington’s Secret Six, one of which is another book he co-wrote with Yaeger about Thomas Jefferson. And Don Yaeger who is an award winning speaker. As well as an eight-time New York best seller, and a business leadership coach to many businesses around the world. They both are said to have the storytelling ability. They have used a combination of their skills in a unique way to produce very eye catching titles, to which they then make the history jump off the page and into motion before your eyes. Kilmeade and Yaeger state in the authors note that this book is written …show more content…
However, they do this by makinging up dialogue that they think could or would have happened while also trying to use true phrases if they happen to be available. After reading the note about this before starting the book I was nervous about what was to come, but it proved to be a pretty good gamble on Yaeger and Kilmeade’s part. The story is very interesting as well as believable based on historical context of the situation(s). They also are able to add an emotional dimension from the reader that is not always there when looking at historical …show more content…
Yaeger and Kilmeade do a great job of making things that took place over two hundred years ago and putting the reader right into the story as if they were there hearing this account first hand if not being an eyewitness. I think Kilmeade and Yaeger did a really good at encouraging the historian. I say this because to start of the book they tell us a story about Morton Pennypacker. Who happened to look through a set of papers dealing with the Townsend family who are pretty big deals in New York and after comparing writing samples and sending it off to a handwriting specialist confirms that he found out who the leader of the spy ring was.They did a pretty good job at making them heroes while at the same time retaining their simple human characteristics. This encourages me mainly because it shows that even if the work looks boring it could turn out to be a very interesting find that no one has happened across or thought about to this point. I also especially liked that it showed that Washington had several failed attempts at setting up his network of spies but once it was in place it was definitely influential to the way in which he acted and countered what the British were doing, however it does mostly stick to the New York area. This book definitely gave me an appreciation to those in intelligence both then and now. I knew it was an important part to being prepared, but I