Wow, Rick Hicks....really?

Nope.  I'm younger and much better looking than this version, yet still too modest to put myself on YouTube.


Timely enough though - as I do have a book recommendation (isn't that weird):

"Founding Brothers" by Joseph J. Ellis.  Its not written chronologically, but covers our band of brothers from Washington's first term through the romantic deaths of Adams and Jefferson in 1826 (a poet dare not write something so grand, for it would not be believed).  Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, and Burr tossed in the mix as well - as the opening chapter is 'The Duel'.

Of course its become my favorite part of American history, so I was easily taking in by it - but a very good book even if you do not share my interest in the period.