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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Stated First Edition. GRIPPING: DRAMATIC: COMPELLING: NEW Stated First Edition (Orig. May 2015) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW cover w/ deep-purple library-durable paper wrapping spine & extending 1.50 onto front & back panels covered in clay-red paper & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles elegantly gilt-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE text-block exterior w/ smooth cut top & bottom edges & w/ cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMMACULATE white card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Calson on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.50" x 9.36" x 1.36", 0.68 kg, xx+290 (310) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the 13 colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new Nation." The truth is different. In 1776, 13 American colonies declared themselves independent states that only temporarily joined forces in order to defeat the British. Once victorious, they planned to go their separate ways. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor a political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence & accept the creation of a federal government w/ power over their autonomy as states. "The Quartet" is the story of this second American founding & of the men most responsible: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, & James Madison. These men, w/ the help of Robert Morris & 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, &, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to assure state compliance w/ the constitutional settlement. Ellis has given us a gripping & dramatic portrait of one of the most crucial & misconstrued periods in American history: the years between the end of the Revolution & the formation of the federal government. "The Quartet" unmasks a myth & 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. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JOSEPH J. ELLIS is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Founding Brothers". His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, "American Sphinx", won the National Book Award. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, w/ his wife, Ellen, his youngest son, three dogs, and a cat. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. Seller Inventory # 010229
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