Week One: Meet The Founders
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.”
The 1787 Constitutional Convention was like a sporting event in that, “You can’t tell the players without a program.” In this first talk, Isaacson and Ellis introduce us to the key Founding Fathers not as marble men but, rather, as brilliant, complex, and, in some cases, deeply-flawed individuals trying to create a sustainable national government linking 13 former-colonies—some of which teeter on the brink of bankruptcy.
Alexander Hamilton, Courtesy, National Gallery of Art, Washington
James Madison, Courtesy, National Gallery of Art, Washington