An intimate look at the founders--George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison--and the women who played essential roles in their lives.

An introduction to the men who put aside their differences to create a new kind of nation.

Discusses the men and women who, in the early days of the United States, spoke out about the threat of a too powerful and intrusive federal government.

"They are the pioneers of America, some of the nation's most recognizable faces, the men responsible for the creation of the United States. In-depth portraits of the country's most prominent statesmen, including the secrets they shared and the legacies they left behind, make up this comprehensive collection of documentaries from HISTORY"--Container.

"Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist...