In The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books,
historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a
fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washington,
Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. Fleming nimbly takes
readers through a great deal of early American history, as our founding
fathers struggle to reconcile the private and public-and often deal with
a media every bit as gossip-seeking and inflammatory as ours today.