Uniting the States: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle - Six Founders Who Shaped America's Revolutionary Democracy

As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, #1 New York Times bestselling author and FOX & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade profiles six early Americans whose courage helped define freedom for our fledgling nation. When the colonists threw off British rule, they launched a great experiment in democracy.Self-government by the people, with a sworn commitment to equality and liberty for all, had never been tried.To give the new nation shape, leaders and patriots, men who would raise their voices and serve the cause, needed to rise to the challenge. Six among the founders - John Adams and his son John Quincy, George Washington, Captain Daniel Shays, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Quincy Adams - all would play defining roles in the decades to follow. John Adams defended of the accused British soldiers at Boston Massacre, risking his reputation to establish the rule of law as an essential American value.George Washington, outnumbered in the face of the most powerful military force i