Brothers, Not Saints: The Founders' Fight to Hold It Together
They argued. They schemed. One of them shot another one dead.
The night before America's 250th birthday, we look past the marble statues to the actual men underneath — proud, brilliant, deeply flawed, and somehow still able to build a nation together. From the Hamilton-Burr duel to the secret dinner that saved the young republic's finances, this episode digs into Joseph J. Ellis's Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers to ask what really held the founding generation together when their egos so often threatened to tear it apart.
Part three of our weekly series leading up to July 4th, 2026…
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