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7 CD Audio Set, 8 1/2 Hours, 4 American Founders, The Quartet, History
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- Type
- Audiobook
- ISBN
- 9780553550733
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Quartet : Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Revolutionary, General, United States / General
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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. 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. The Quartet 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. 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. The Quartet 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.
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Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
055355073x
ISBN-13
9780553550733
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7038522314
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Book Title
Quartet : Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Revolutionary, General, United States / General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
History, Political Science
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in.
Item Height
1in.
Item Width
5.9in.
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Number of Volumes
7 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
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Kirkus (starred review) "A brilliant account of six years during which four Founding Fathers, 'in disregard of public opinion, carried the American story in a new direction.' In a virtuosic introduction, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Ellis maintains that Abraham Lincoln was wrong. In 1776--four score and seven years before 1863--our forefathers did not bring forth a new nation....Ellis reminds us that the 1776 resolution declaring independence described 13 'free and independent states.' Adopting the Constitution in 1789 created the United States, but no mobs rampaged in its favor....Ellis delivers a convincing argument that it was a massive political transformation led by men with impeccable revolutionary credentials....This is Ellis' ninth consecutive history of the Revolutionary War era and yet another winner."
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342.7302/9
Dewey Edition
23
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