1789
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1789

George Washington and the Founders Create America

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eBook - ePub

1789

George Washington and the Founders Create America

About this book

"[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."— 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 new—and very American—form 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 decisions—All is bare creation."
The Constitution had been written in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But 1789 was the year the government it described—albeit only in the broadest of terms—had 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

  1. Prologue: Eleven States Create a Nation
  2. 1 The Great Cause
  3. 2 The Specter of a King
  4. 3 The Reluctant President
  5. 4 Out with the Old
  6. 5 A New Government Awakens
  7. 6 “Now a King”
  8. 7 Etiquette Advice for the President
  9. 8 “All Is Bare Creation”
  10. 9 The Constitution as Blueprint
  11. 10 Counting We the People
  12. 11 America’s “Other Persons”
  13. 12 A Tub Full of Rights
  14. 13 “He Shall Have Power”
  15. 14 Stricken Washington, Fearful Nation
  16. 15 Washington Gets a Bastille Key
  17. 16 Seeing America’s Farms and Factories
  18. 17 Many Pirates—And No Navy
  19. 18 The Second Session: Hope and Angst
  20. 19 On the Frontier, Spies and Plots
  21. 20 Toward an American Language
  22. Epilogue: In Rising Glory
  23. Appendices
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. About the Author