Triumphs and Tragedies

You never know what you’ll find at Costco. Yesterday it was Joseph Ellis’s newest book, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, published just last week.

I’ve barely begun, but the book is constructed in the style of Ellis’s Pulitizer prize-winner Founding Brothers — somewhat independent chapters relating stories that illustrate his broader point.

Anyone with an abiding interest in the founding of America should read Founding Brothers. I’ll let you know about this sequel in a day or so.

(Ellis’s His Excellency: George Washington is quite good too, and recommended.)

2 thoughts on “Triumphs and Tragedies”

It’s quite good.

Here’s a descriptive review: Joseph Ellis Explains Just How the Revolution Was Revolutionary.

Second update: I’ve finished the book and I recommend it. I don’t believe it rises to the level of Founding Brothers, but it still consists of interesting stories told well as part of a larger thesis — and that’s pretty much the best kind of history.

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