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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781538197851
• ISBN-10: 1538197855
• Artikelnr.: 70528449

Autorenporträt

Thomas B. Allen, esteemed and prolific author of numerous history books, including Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War (2010), Remember Valley Forge (2007), and George Washington, Spymaster (2004), lived for many years in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside the nation's capital. He was 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.

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