Who Is Joseph Ellis Founding Brothers

In “Founding Brothers,” Joseph Ellis arranges the seven chapters to point out the posterity and friendship the Founding Fathers had to create or hold onto in order to help develop what we now call our home, the United States of America. The Founding Fathers realized and knew that with great collaboration between both their foes and friends, the nation they were creating had great potential. George Washington was a great example as shown in Ellis’s book. As “George Washington wrote, ‘They are, from this period, to be considered as Actors on a most conspicuous Theatre, which seems to be peculiarly designed by Providence for the display of human greatness and felicity.’ If the infant American republic could survive its infancy, if it could manage to endure as a coherent national entity long enough to consolidate its natural advantages, it possessed the potential to become a dominant force in the world (7).” Therefore, Ellis points out that the Founding Fathers were just ordinary men. “Mostly male, all white, this collection of public figures was hardly typical of the population as a whole; nor was it, on …show more content…
Ellis shows us in the last story in which Adams and Jefferson agree on their love for independence and the new nation, especially with Jefferson’s statement, “I look back with rapture to those golden days when Virginia and Massachusetts lived and acted together like a band of brothers. While I breathe I shall be your friend (243).” Ellis comes back to the idea that he portrays throughout the book, though the men may have different views, they created an everlasting relationship with each other for independence and the development of the new nation. Washington was dubbed “Father of the country,” Ellis shows us that hard work and passion for the creation of the new nation was what all the Founding Fathers wanted though Washington showed it with his services from the very