I have begun reading a book recommended to me by a friend, "Bunker Hill: a City, a Siege, a Revolution", by Nathaniel Philbrick. I am about a quarter of the way into it, and I find myself wondering why this conservative friend of mine would recommend this book to me. I have always placed the Founders of this country on a high pedestal, and that pedestal has became more solid and pronounced the more I have learned about those men, with a few exceptions. I have always tried to view those men realistically, knowing they weren't deities, but men, and...