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1789

1789

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1789: George Washington and the Founders Create America draws 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.


<p>Thomas B. Allen (1929-2018) was the "uthor of numerous history books, including Tories: Fighting for the King in Americas 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 Institutes Proceedings, and other publications. He resided in Bethesda, Maryland.</p><br>

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

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