Those Founding Fathers were some messed up dudes. I mean, really. Nice to read that some things (the politics) haven't changed. A good book, but sometimes the tangents the author goes off on gives you the impression he was required by the publisher to write a book that was X pages long.

An interesting and easy read - albeit sometimes repetitive - about a scientific challenge that was pursued by Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton and so important that the British parliament offered a prize of 20,000 pounds (the equivalent of millions of dollars today) with the Longitude Act of 1714.