Finished it. The other chapters were on Washington and foreign policy, and on Madison’s adroit politicking both before and after the Constitutional Convention. The latter was particularly good; I learned a lot. Not Ellis’s best (that’s still his Pulitzer-winning Founding Brothers), but worth a read.
Over the weekend I zipped through Becky Chambers’s A Psalm for the Wild-Built, an upbeat, feel-good sf novel set on a human-settled, habitable, heavily-forested moon orbiting a gas giant. It’s about a vaguely-discontented tea monk who encounters a nature-loving robot out in the woods, and the offbeat friendship that results. It’s jussssst a little bit twee, but I liked it.
Next up: Eager by Ben Goldfarb, nonfiction about beavers’ amazing comeback from the devastation of the fur trade, and exploring all that they now have to offer a climate-changing world. Remarkable critters (and cute, too, unless they’re chewing down your favorite tree).