Eliot Spitzer, New York State attorney general What: "Founding Brothers," by Joseph J. Ellis.

A biography of George Washington, by the author of "Founding Brothers."

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, 2000.

"Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," by Joseph J. Ellis.

By the late eighteenth century, all incoming freshmen at Yale College became members either of Linonia or its rival society, Brothers in Unity, which was founded in 1768.

It profiled Mr. Ellis when his book, "Founding Brothers" (Knopf), a group portrait of seven Revolutionary leaders, was published last year.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Founding Brothers" has already written big biographies of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)

Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Founding Brothers," demysticizes Washington, who in his own lifetime was canonized as a symbol of the new American nation.

("Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," published last fall, won a Pulitzer Prize.)