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1789 : George Washington and the founders create America
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"In 1789, the federal government described in the recently ratified U.S. Constitution came into being. Drawing on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, veteran journalist...
"In 1789, the federal government described in the recently ratified U.S. Constitution came into being. Drawing on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, veteran journalist 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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- Creator
- Thomas B. Allen
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- Language
- English
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- First Rowman & Littlefield edition
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2023
- ©2021
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- 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781538183090, 1538183099, 9781538183106, 9781538183106
- OCLC
- on1390705142
- Previous title: 1789: the year that launched America.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-376) and index.
- Prologue: Eleven states create a nation -- The great cause -- The specter of a king -- The reluctant president -- Out with the old -- A new government awakens -- "Now a king" -- Etiquette advice for the president -- "All is bare creation" -- The constitution as blueprint -- Counting we the people -- America's "other persons" -- A tub full of rights -- "He shall have power" -- Stricken Washington, fearful nation -- Washington gets a Bastille key -- Seeing America's farms and factories -- Many pirates -- and no navy -- The second session: Hope and angst -- On the frontier, spies and plots -- Toward an American language -- Epilogue: in rising glory -- Appendices: The "correct" constitution of the United States; Inside the dozen: The Bill of Rights; A timeline of the founding of the United States and the federal government