Warning, you might learn something here! This book follows a collection of essays, short essays mostly of selected founders, the essays work to weave the story of the founding era. It's incorporating the essays to weave the history about why the republic and liberty were sought, which leads the reader into and out of the Constitutional Convention, delves into the Constitution itself the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence using early versions of them before their passage. In other words, it gets into the reasons why and the documents that surround our founding period. This is a defense of originalist understanding, a defense of America itself.