Subject: Re: Washington’s Nightmare
For those interested, I highly recommend a short book titled The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction by R.B. Bernstein. Kindle version in $12.99 on Amazon. Bernstein wrote many books on the subject and was a scholar who studied the Revolutionary era of our country.

Here is a short blurb about the book:
The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen.

R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings--people much like us--who nevertheless achieved political greatness.

I was a history & political science major in undergraduate school. I learned an awful lot in this amazing book.