04361cam a2200697 4500 598246732 TxAuBib 20220801120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385353410 0385353413 B00N6PD4MM Amazon B00N6PD4MM Amazon B00N6PD4MM Amazon eeb1f60d-8395-4db5-b220-f5beaa22499f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2020390 OverDrive (Product ID) 239532 239532 239532 TxAuBib Ellis, Joseph J. The Quartet [Libby] : Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. fathers day gifts for grandpa. historical nonfiction best sellers. gifts for dads. history books. James Madison. american history book. Founding Fathers. Nonfiction. history gifts. History. american history. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. James Madison biography. american revolution books. books for men. American Revolution. personalized fathers day gifts. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1084kB. us history. History book. nonfiction books. men gifts ideas. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2877kB. American history books. history books for adults. Revolutionary War. nonfiction best sellers. revolutionary war books. History. Nonfiction. HTML:From Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, 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.<br /> We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new Nation.” The truth is different. In 1776, thirteen American colonies declared themselves independent states that only temporarily joined forces in order to defeat the British. Once victorious, they planned to go their separate ways. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor a political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their autonomy as states.<br /> <i>The Quartet</i> is the story of this second American founding and of the men most responsible—George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. These men, with the help of Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris, shaped the contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force the 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.<br /> Ellis has given us a gripping and dramatic portrait of one of the most crucial and misconstrued periods in American history: the years between the end of the Revolution and the formation of the federal government. <i>The Quartet</i> unmasks a myth, and in its place presents an even more compelling truth—one that lies at the heart of understanding the creation of the United States of America. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/quartet-eeb1f6?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/quartet-eeb1f6?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/quartet-eeb1f6?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) ALEML