The Quartet
Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Joseph J. Ellis
- NATIONAL
- BESTSELLER
- •
- The
- Pulitzer
- Prize–winning
- author
- of
- Founding
- Brothers
- tells
- the
- unexpected
- story
- of
- America’s
- second
- great
- founding
- and
- of
- the
- men
- most
- responsible—Alexander
- Hamilton,
- George
- Washington,
- John
- Jay,
- and
- James
- Madison.Ellis
- explains
- of
- why
- the
- thirteen
- colonies,
- having
- just
- fought
- off
- the
- imposition
- of
- a
- distant
- centralized
- governing
- power,
- would
- decide
- to
- subordinate
- themselves
- anew.
- 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,
- created
- the
- new
- republic.
- Ellis
- gives
- us
- a
- 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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