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"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"--

Statesmen --- Politicians --- Confederation of states --- Federal government --- Constitutional history --- History --- United States --- Politics and government

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"During the 1790s, which Joseph J. Ellis calls the most decisive decade in US history, the greatest statesmen of their generation came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personae. Ellis argues that the checks and balances that permitted the infant American republic to endure were not primarily legal, constitutional, or institutional, but intensely personal, rooted in the dynamic interaction of leaders with quite different visions and values. Founding Brothers informs our understanding of American politics - then and now - and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history" -- Back cover.

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Johnson (samuel), moraliste, critique et lexicographe britannique, 1709-1784 --- Etats-unis --- Connecticut (etats-unis) --- Histoire --- Civilisation --- Histoire religieuse --- 18e siecle

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