Early American Alpha Male

Tomorrow's Patriot's Day here in Boston and I've been reading a lot about many of our "founding fathers" and I was particularly intrigued by Paul Revere's biography and have been thinking about what it must have been like to live in those days.

First of all, Revere married Sarah Orne and had eight children and then was widowed -- something I didn't know. Sarah and their last son, both died in childbirth. Very sad, but soon he married again and had eight more children with his second wife, Rachel Walker.

That was nothing compared to all he did in business and politics and the military. What was fascinating to me about his biography is how much he did and how long he lived and how much was required of people starting a new country. Copulating was serious business when you were starting a new nation -- the more fathers fathering the more new baby patriots, the better.