FILM RECOMMENDATION
The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, and Joely Richardson. The movie follows Benjamin Martin (Gibson), an American colonist opposed to going to war with Great Britain but, along with his son Gabriel (Ledger), gets swept into the American Revolutionary War when his home life is disrupted, and one of his sons is murdered by a cruel British officer (Isaacs). Robert Rodat, the film’s writer, said Martin is a composite character based on four historical men: Andrew Pickens, Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan, and Thomas Sumter. Columbia Pictures, 2000, Rated R, 2h 45m.
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Pulitzer Prize-winner Ron Chernow presents this biography of Alexander Hamilton, who shaped, inspired, and scandalized our new nation. The book that inspired the Broadway musical Hamilton. Penguin Books, 2005.