Best biographies of the founding fathers

Because I write the Books & Biceps newsletter every week to thousands of my fellow sophisticated meatheads, I get asked for book recs in all kinds of niches, but one that pops up a lot is the Revolutionary War and in particular, the founding fathers.

To answer that question directly, these are my five favorite biographies on the founding fathers.

Let’s begin with the authors:

Joseph J. Ellis and Richard Brookhiser are my literary version of ’03-’04 Manny and Big Papi when it comes to early U.S.

history biographies.

They knock every single book out of the park on the subject. I’ve been reading about the American Revolution as a side-hobby ever since I got out of college. This is all the more amazing to me personally because while I was in college and high school, I don’t think I paid attention for 5 minutes during a US History class.

I’d love to say that all of my teachers sucked and I w