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Luke Day’s letter: Lockwood, 107–8.

“Barracks and stores”: Herrick, 95.

“That’s all we want, by God!”: Feer, 367.

“Take the hill”: Szatmary, p. 102.

“Fire o’er the rascals’s heads!”: Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Edward J. Blum, and Jon Gjerde, eds., Major Problems in American History , vol. 1, Cengage Learning, 2011, p. 141.

“March on! March on!”: Stewart, 13.

“Another volley—this time waist height”: Minot, 111.

“I’m afraid I’ve only four”: Copeland, 97.

“Whether you are convinced or not of your error”: Charles Oscar Parmenter, History of Pelham, Mass. From 1738 to 1898, Including the Early History of Prescott , Ulan Press, 2012, p. 379.

“My boys, you are going to fight for liberty”: Everts, 77.

“Sir: However unjustifiable the measures”: Holland, 268–69.

“I must have a word with you”: Richards, 31.

“And discipline breaking down”: Richards, 31.

“In monarchies, the crime of treason”: Ira Stoll, Samuel Adams: A Life , Free Press, 2008, p. 224.

“What country can preserve its liberties”: North American Review, January–April 1830 , p. 524.

“As you have set yourselves against”: Caleb Smith, The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War , Harvard University Press, 2013, p. 76.

“Our fate is a loud and solemn lesson”: Smith, 75.

Chapter 3: The Virginia Convention: Compromising for the Constitution

Most of the facts used to create this story came from the following sources:

Bailyn, Bernard, ed. The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, Part Two: January to August 1788 . Library of America, 1993.

Beeman, Richard R. Patrick Henry: A Biography . McGraw-Hill, 1974.

Beveridge, Albert J. The Life of John Marshall . Vol. 1. Cosimo Classics, 2013.

Broadwater, Jeff. George Mason, Forgotten Founder . University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Brookhiser, Richard. James Madison . Basic Books, 2011.

DeRose, Chris. Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation . Regnery History, 2011.

Grigsby, Hugh Blair. The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788, with Some Account of Eminent Virginians Who Were Members of that Body , Vol. 1. Forgotten Books, 2012.

Gay, Sydney Howard. James Madison . Ulan Press, 2012.

Gutzman, Kevin R. James Madison and the Making of America . St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013.

Hunt, Gaillard. The Life of James Madison . Ulan Press, 2012.

Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography . University of Virginia Press, 1990.

Kidd, Thomas S. Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots . Basic Books, 2011.

Maier, Pauline. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 . Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Mayer, Henry. A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic . Grove Press, 2001.

Mayo, Bernard. Myths and Men: Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson . University of Georgia Press, 2010.

Meade, Robert Douthat. Patrick Henry: Practical Revolutionary . Lippincott, 1969.

Robertson, David. Debates and Other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia, Convened at Richmond . . . June 1788: For the Purpose of Deliberating on the Constitution . Ulan Press, 2012.

Rowland, Kate Mason. Life of George Mason, 1725–1792 . Ulan Press, 2012.

Smith, Jean Edward. John Marshall: Definer of a Nation . Holt Paperbacks, 1998.

Tyler, Moses Coit. Patrick Henry . Echo Library, 2009.

Unger, Harlow Giles. Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation . Da Capo Press, 2010.

Willison, George F. Patrick Henry and His World . Doubleday, 1969.

Writ, William. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry . University Press of the Pacific, 2004.

Most of the dialogue in this chapter was imagined, but the following quotations were taken in whole or in part from the historical record:

“Caesar had his Brutus”: Writ, 83.

“a scarecrow with a wig”: Unger, 162.

“The people gave them no power to use their name”: Mayer, 402.

“The government is for the people”: Mayer, 402–3.

“I am a friend of the Union”: Beveridge, 377.

“Randolph has thrown himself fully into our scale. Mason and Henry take different and awkward ground, and we are in the best spirits”: Gutzman, 207.

“Worthy friend”: Robertson, 36.

“The former is the shield and protector of the latter”: Robertson, 37.

“Don’t ask how trade may be increased”: Robertson, 43.

“What are the checks of exposing accounts?”: Meade, 356.

“This illustrious citizen advises you to reject this government”: Robertson, 152–53.

“I beg the honorable gentleman to pardon me”: Robertson, 187–88.

“Our progress is low”: Gay, 114.

“Nothing has excited more admiration in the world”: Gutzman, 232.

“His proposed amendments could be subsequently recommended”: Gutzman, 233.

“Madison tells you of the important blessings”: Robertson, 625.

“Virtue will slumber”: Robertson, 165.

Note that some scenes in this chapter were imagined or expanded beyond what we know from the historical record. This includes, for example, the scene at the end of the story in which James Madison thinks about Patrick Henry’s warnings and ultimately decides that they have no merit.

Chapter 4: The Barbary War: A Steep Price for Peace

Most of the facts used to create this story came from the following sources:

“Battle of Derna, 27 April 1805: Selected Naval Documents.” http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/barbary_derna.htm.

Baepler, Paul, ed. White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives . University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the Shores of Tripoli: The Rise of U.S. Navy and Marines . Osprey, 2006.

Lambert, Frank. The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World . Hill & Wang, 2007.

London, Joshua E. Victory in Tripoli: How America’s War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation . Wiley, 2005.

Oren, Michael B. Power Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present . Norton, 2008.

Ray, William. Horrors of Slavery: Or, the American Tars in Tripoli . Rutgers University Press, 2008.

Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address. March 4, 1801. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jefinau1.asp.

Whipple, A. B. C. To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the U.S. Navy and the Marines . Bluejacket Books, 2001.

Zacks, Richard. The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 . Hyperion, 2006.

Most of the dialogue in this chapter was imagined, but the following quotations were taken in whole or in part from the historical record:

“No man will hereafter love you as I do—but I prefer the field of Mars to the bower of Venus”: Oren, 63.

“We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists”: Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address.

“Nothing but a formidable force will effect an honorable peace with Tripoli”: London, 146.

“I sincerely wish you could empower”: London, 145.

“. . . that I might never experience the horrors of another morning”: William Ray Diary, December 22, 1803.