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• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Charlie Rose, Inc.
• DVD Release Date: August 15, 2006
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000HBL2V8
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #226,222 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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A special show in honor of the Fourth of July. First, a rebroadcast of an interview with Walter Isaacson, biographer of Benjamin Franklin that originally aired on June 30, 2003.||Then, a rebroadcast of an interview with biographer David McCullough that originally aired on May 28, 2001, where he discusses his scholarship on John Adams which led to his bestselling book on the second United States President.||Finally, in this rebroadcast from June 4, 2001, Joseph Ellis talks about his book, Founding Brothers.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Ellis Founding Brothers segment, June 15, 2008

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Ellis book is about the founding brothers of the American Revolution- Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Burr, Hamilton, Franklin. He speaks about the vision of these leaders centering on political democracy and free enterprise capitalism. He speaks about them being 'brothers' that is at the distance that they would be should he have called them 'fathers'. He tells about the most brilliant Hamilton and his fatal duel with the shady Burr. He speaks about Washington's giving up his slaves when his wife died, and Jefferson's justification of Slavery. He points out that they were often rivals, but that they knew how to work together to bring their vision into being. He says that when they signed the declaration the chance that they might prevail against the British Army seemed one in ten- thousand. Ellis stresses the element of contingency and says that what we believe today 'had to be'might never have happened at all.