Description
"[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.
Author: Thomas Allen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 10/01/2023
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781538183090
ISBN10: 1538183099
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
About the Author
The late Thomas B. Allen was the author of numerous history books, including Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War (Harper, 2010), George Washington, Spymaster and Remember Valley Forge. 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. He resided in Bethesda, Maryland.