How John Marshall Saved the Republic

Clouds of doom shrouded the nation in 1800. George Washington was dead.

For the first time in their twenty-five-year struggle to govern themselves, Americans faced a future without the father of their country to lead them. And they lost their way.


Absent their commander-in-chief, the men who had helped him lead the nation to independence went mad. Chaos engulfed the land as surviving Founding Fathers Adams, Burr, Hamilton, Jefferson, Monroe, and others turned on each other as they clawed at Washington’s fallen mantle.

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