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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Fiction & Biography     First Chapter Excerpts     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary       More by this author     Ellis, Joseph J.     Subjects     Statesmen -- Biography.     Politicians -- Biography.     Confederation of states -- History -- 18th century.     Federal government -- History -- 18th century.     Constitutional history.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ellis, Joseph J.       by title:      The quartet : orches...         MARC Display

The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789 / Joseph J. Ellis. by Ellis, Joseph J. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Subjects Statesmen -- Biography.   Politicians -- Biography.   Confederation of states -- History -- 18th century.   Federal government -- History -- 18th century.   Constitutional history.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789. Summary:  "The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their individual autonomy. 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"-- Notes:  "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Edition:  First edition. Description:  xx, 290 pages ; 24 cm. ISBN:  9780385353403 (cloth : alkaline paper) 0385353405 (cloth : alkaline paper)   Copy/Holding information Location Status Collection Call No.   Main - Anderson Public Library Checked In Adult Non-Fiction 342.73 E Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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