Lucia St. Clair Robson & Charles Cerami

The theme today is patriots -- young patriots and shadow patriots. July of 1776 was a time when people's true loyalties were sometimes obscure. That's the world shown to us by Lucia St. Clair Robson in her historical novel Shadow Patriots. Then, in Charles Cerami's nonfiction Young Patriots, we are reminded that the two main architects of the Constitution -- James Madison and Alexander Hamilton -- were not old fogies, but energetic young guys.