Thomas B. Allen

1789

George Washington and the Founders Create America

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Produktbeschreibung

"[A] superb distillation of a complex moment in U.S. history."-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Drawing on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of a new nation, Thomas B. Allen tells the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the other Founders set this new federal government into motion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 235mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781538183090
• ISBN-10: 1538183099
• Artikelnr.: 67482717

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