The Good Fight: The Feuds of the Founding Fathers (and How They Shaped the Nation) - eBook

Anne Quirk was the publisher of the Horn Book Magazine and has worked for a number of book publishers in a number of ways. The daughter of two lawyers, the sister to seven siblings, and the mother of three children, she knows a lot about arguments. She studied history at Dartmouth College and lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.

About the illustrator:
 
Elizabeth Baddeley is not inclined to fight. She teaches design and is an illustrator whose previous work includes A Woman in the House (and Senate) by Ilene Cooper, Women Who Broke the Rules: Mary Todd Lincoln by Kathleen Krull, and I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri. See more of her work at ebaddeley.com. Follow her on Twitter at @BizBeth.

"Want to make the story of our founding fathers relevant and interesting? One way is to produce a groundbreaking, award-winning Broadway rap musical. Another solution might be to offer this slim tome, a summary of four fractious early American relationships."  -- Booklist
 
"Readers will be pleasantly surprised not only by the nuggets of history they’ll learn but also the lesson that heated debate isn’t necessarily bad – it can even be wildly productive." -- School Library Journal
 
"Briskly paced, humorously illustrated." – Horn Book