Thomas B. Allen

1789 (eBook, ePUB)

George Washington and the Founders Create America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"[Historian Allen] recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. It's a superb distillation of a complex moment in U.S. history."- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

1789: George Washington and the Founders Create Americadraws on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, setting out to show the world at large that a new-and very American-form of government was calling itself into being. "No future session of Congress will ever have so arduous and weighty a charge on their hands," the New York Gazette observed in summer 1789. "No examples to imitate, and no striking historical facts on which to ground their decisions-All is bare creation."

The Constitution had been written in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But 1789 was the year the government it described-albeit only in the broadest of terms-had to be brought into being.

Veteran journalist Thomas B. Allen brings decades of experience and a gifted storyteller's eye to the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the Founders set the federal government into motion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538183106
• Artikelnr.: 68453930

Autorenporträt

Thomas B. Allen (1929-2018) was the "uthor of numerous history books, including Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War (Harper, 2010), George Washington, Spymaster and Remember Valley Forge. A frequent contributor to Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, Military History Quarterly, Military History, Naval History, the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings, and other publications. He resided in Bethesda, Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Eleven States Create a Nation
1 The Great Cause
2 The Specter of a King
3 The Reluctant President
4 Out with the Old
5 A New Government Awakens
6 "Now a King"
7 Etiquette Advice for the President
8 "All Is Bare Creation"
9 The Constitution as Blueprint
10 Counting We the People
11 America's "Other Persons"
12 A Tub Full of Rights
13 "He Shall Have Power"
14 Stricken Washington, Fearful Nation
15 Washington Gets a Bastille Key
16 Seeing America's Farms and Factories
17 Many Pirates-And No Navy
18 The Second Session: Hope and Angst
19 On the Frontier, Spies and Plots
20 Toward an American Language
Epilogue: In Rising Glory
Appendices
1 The "Correct"
Constitution of the United States
2 Inside the Dozen: the Bill of Rights
3 A Timeline of the Founding of the United States and the Federal
Government
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Bibliographic Sources
Index
About the Author