I just read Benjamin Franklin's bio. An amazing patriot butI didn't realize he was such a horn dog. He had the morals of Larry Flint.
I better stop reading!! ;)
I love those books.
We have a tendency to regard the Founders as gods. They weren't, they were men who did incredible things. That makes their accomplishments all the more astounding.
Alexander Hamilton was a Revolutionary War hero, Washington's most important advisor both as general and President, and laid the economic foundation that made this country the world's only superpower. He also was at the center of the first sex scandal in American government.
I like my heroes to have feet of clay. They're only mortals, after all.