Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders

Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

The Founding Fathers were men of high intellect, steely integrity, and enormous ambition—but they were not all of one mind. They came from particular places in already diverse colonies, and they all sought their futures in different horizons. Without reliable maps of even nearby terrain, they contributed in different, and sometimes conflicting, ...