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Size: 9.5" x 6.5" x 1"; Signed by Ellis on the front flyleaf. Bound in two toned burgundy and cream paper. An illustration of a tree is embossed on the cover. Gilt lettering on the spine. Deckled foredge. Includes notes. Indexed. xi, 288 pp. Illustrated dust jacket protected by a mylar cover. Both the book and jacket are fine. A lovely copy. Full refund if not satisfied. FROM THE DUST JACKET: "An Illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic-John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. [...] In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas. [...]" ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Joseph J. Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Educated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University, he served as a captain in the army and taught at West Point before going to Mount Holyoke in 1972. He was the dean of the faculty there for ten years.