1. Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Joseph Ellis opens up "Founding Brothers" by explaining "No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed to inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution" (Ellis 3). ... Ellis express that because of Franklin's signature at the bottom of the petition it made it obvious that "calmly receiving these requests, then banishing them to the congressional version of oblivion was not going to work" because he could not be as easily ignored as the Quakers (Ellis 83). ... When the founding brothers "created a seal for the United St...
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- Approx Pages: 6
- Grade Level: Undergraduate