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    <body><![CDATA[I read this to fill in a few of the considerable gaps in my knowledge of American history.  I found Ellis readable and entertaining, especially his chapters on the Continental Army at Valley Forge and the Louisiana Purchase.  <br/><br/>His portraits of Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Washington are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28546895">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ This book fills in a lot of gaps in the story of the creation of the United States. It describes the coming together of some of the most brilliant political minds ever assembled, and how they struggled with their republican values and the practical demands of the time. For example, Washington is fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41744529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book to be very educational and a quick read.  So much gets glossed over in our education on the founding fathers, and you develop these unrealistic images of them.  Its more fascinating to read about what they were really like and how things actually went down.  I gained a much greater...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61497320">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Reviewers embraced <em>American Creation</em> for the same reason they enjoyed Ellis's previous books: his treatment of the Founding Fathers is neither idolatrous nor iconoclastic. He portrays them as the fascinating, complex, and human characters they really were. Some historians disagreed with details of E...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45463105">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an excellent book and a high quality audio CD.  I was somewhat concerned when I saw this book was being read by the same reader as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= American Lion: A Biography of President Andrew Jackson" title=" American Lion: A Biography of President Andrew Jackson"> American Lion: A Biography of President Andrew Jackson</a>, a less rewarding experience than I was hoping for.  Fortunately, this was not the case.<br/><br/>For ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40840749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating and a joy to read, like Ellis's other books.  Ellis's thesis is that the founding of the US, 1775 to 1803, was both triumph and tragedy.  He develops this idea by means of separate stories, including the failed attempt by Henry Knox and George Washington, during the latter's presidency, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45001660">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting tidbits about three areas of the early days of the Republic(Madison's thoughts on how the Constitution should be written, the handling of the &quot;Indian&quot; issue, and the Louisiana Purchase). Though well written the assembly of the subjects seemed kind of random. It's almost as if t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19013384">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Inserting everything that you probably should have studied in you early American History class, Ellis does an excellent job analyzing most of the major decisions and controversies in early American governance from the forming of the Continental Army through the Louisiana purchase. He alternates betw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74680820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After the historic Obama win, I felt the need to read this book by one of my favorite American historians, Joseph Ellis. In his true page-turner fashion, he provides rich analysis and accounts of the great &quot;republican experiment&quot; that shifted the global paradigm of state vs. federal sovere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38285639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I've read every book by Joseph Ellis - each of his biographies of the founding fathers (Washington, Adams and Jefferson) and of course &quot;Founding Brothers&quot; which was excellent.  &quot;American Creation&quot; was in the same vein of &quot;Founding Brothers&quot; - telling anecdotes a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66866383">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the clarity of the book helped to propel the narrative in this history of the founding of the United States. the lucidity and concision of the book account for part of the reason i liked the book, but only a small part. what was most enjoyable was the difference in vision and interpretation of the e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57583701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A splendid book that joins Ellis' 'Founding Brothers' and a host of excellent biographies of Americas founders. Ellis focuses on how Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton were 'winging it' when they declared these American states were 'free and independent' from England and why it took ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38214435">more...</a>]]></body>
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