The First Congress : how James Madison, George Washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government /
"The little known story of perhaps the most productive Congress in American history, the First Federal Congress of 1789-1791. The First Congress was the most important in American history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would a...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Nebuchadnezzar's monster
- An ocean always turbulent
- The fostering hand of government
- A new era
- Pomp and quiddling
- A very perplexing business
- A great and delicate subject
- Vile politics
- Propositions of a doubtful nature
- Paper guarantees
- A centre without parallel
- Interlude I
- The labyrinth of finance
- A gross national iniquity
- The trumpet of sedition
- Cabals, meetings, plots & counterplots
- A southern position
- Indians
- Interlude II
- Freedom's favorite seat
- A most mischievous engine
- Epilogue: American dawn.