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.