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"[Historian Allen] recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. It's a superb distillation of a complex moment in U.S. history."â Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
1789: George Washington and the Founders Create Americadraws on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, setting out to show the world at large that a newâand very Americanâform of government was calling itself into being. "No future session of Congress will ever have so arduous and weighty a charge on their hands," the New York Gazette observed in summer 1789. "No examples to imitate, and no striking historical facts on which to ground their decisionsâAll is bare creation."
The Constitution had been written in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But 1789 was the year the government it describedâalbeit only in the broadest of termsâhad to be brought into being.
Veteran journalist Thomas B. Allen brings decades of experience and a gifted storyteller's eye to the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the Founders set the federal government into motion.
1789: George Washington and the Founders Create Americadraws on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, setting out to show the world at large that a newâand very Americanâform of government was calling itself into being. "No future session of Congress will ever have so arduous and weighty a charge on their hands," the New York Gazette observed in summer 1789. "No examples to imitate, and no striking historical facts on which to ground their decisionsâAll is bare creation."
The Constitution had been written in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But 1789 was the year the government it describedâalbeit only in the broadest of termsâhad to be brought into being.
Veteran journalist Thomas B. Allen brings decades of experience and a gifted storyteller's eye to the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the Founders set the federal government into motion.
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Table of contents
- 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 âNow a Kingâ
- 7 Etiquette Advice for the President
- 8 âAll Is Bare Creationâ
- 9 The Constitution as Blueprint
- 10 Counting We the People
- 11 Americaâs âOther Personsâ
- 12 A Tub Full of Rights
- 13 âHe Shall Have Powerâ
- 14 Stricken Washington, Fearful Nation
- 15 Washington Gets a Bastille Key
- 16 Seeing Americaâs Farms and Factories
- 17 Many PiratesâAnd 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
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author