Bibliograph

The quartet, orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789, Joseph J. Ellis

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The quartet, orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789, Joseph J. Ellis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The quartet

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

903811420

Responsibility statement

Joseph J. Ellis

Sub title

orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Summary

The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers gives us the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men responsible--some familiar, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, and some less so, such as Robert Morris and Governeur Morris. It was these men who shaped the contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force a calling of the Constitutional Convention, conspiring to set the agenda in Philadelphia, orchestrating the debate in the state ratifying conventions, and, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to assure state compliance with the constitutional settlement

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