From popular historian Tom Fleming comes an intimate look at America’s founders — George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison — and the women who played critical roles in their lives and careers. Like public figures of today, they struggled to reconcile personal relationships with public duty, and were forced to deal with a media that was just as intrusive and inflammatory as it is today.

\nFleming examines the youthful Washington’s tortured love for the married Sarah Fairfax; Franklin’s two \