"[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.
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