| Portion of title |
George Washington and the founders create America |
| Contents |
Prologue: Eleven states create a nation -- The great cause -- The specter of a king -- The reluctant president -- Out with the old -- A new government awakens -- "Now a king" -- Etiquette advice for the president -- "All is bare creation" -- The constitution as blueprint -- Counting we the people -- America's "other persons" -- A tub full of rights -- "He shall have power" -- Stricken Washington, fearful nation -- Washington gets a Bastille key -- Seeing America's farms and factories -- Many pirates -- and no navy -- The second session: Hope and angst -- On the frontier, spies and plots -- Toward an American language -- Epilogue: in rising glory -- Appendices: The "correct" constitution of the United States; Inside the dozen: The Bill of Rights; A timeline of the founding of the United States and the federal government. |
| Abstract |
"In 1789, the federal government described in the recently ratified U.S. Constitution came into being. Drawing on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, veteran journalist Thomas B. Allen tells the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the other Founders set this new federal government into motion"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Previous title: 1789: the year that launched America. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-376) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Allen, Thomas B. 1789 Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, [2023] 9781538183106 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023032237 |
| ISBN | 9781538183090 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1538183099 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
