"Historian Joseph Ellis masterfully illuminates the 'untrodden' path, as Washington put it, that led to that crucial stage of sewing up the elements of the new country.     Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of “The Quartet” by Joseph J. Ellis. Dispatched from the UK in 2 business days US$19.10 293 pages. Joseph J. Ellis

US$21.70 Knopf. Prizewinning author Joseph J. Ellis explains how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison helped orchestrate the long, complex political process that ultimately resulted in the Constitutional Convention and the Bill of Rights.     US$10.55   US$16.73 US$15.25   © 2020  This question is the core of “The Quartet.” In his customary graceful prose, Joseph J. Ellis, the author of such works of popular history as the prizewinning “Founding Brothers,” argues that the United States did not become a nation with the Declaration of Independence in 1776. We work to shine a light on stories that build bridges, tear down walls, and speak truth to power.    
  Ellis’s new book, Ellis defines this crucial moment in American history as a clash between those who preferred the status quo of a limply confederated collection of states, and those who favored constructing a unified nation.     US$15.70  

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US$15.70 US$31.49 Joseph J. Ellis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.   US$22.81 It was Washington’s decision to wager his immense prestige on participation in the Constitutional Convention (shrewdly convened for maximum patriotic impact in the same room in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed) that granted the assembly its legitimacy.The best chapter belongs to Madison and his fight at the Convention for a muscular central government. US$35.15 As Jay wrote to John Adams, “Our federal government is incompetent to its objects, and so as it is in the Interest of our Country, so it is the Duty of our leading Characters to Cooperate in measures for enlarging and navigating it”. He studies the philosophy of technology, and some of his popular writing has appeared in Slate and the Atlantic. US$23.29 x 202 US$13.87 In his latest book, Joseph Ellis once again looks back to the American founding for wisdom from Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Washington. While the actions of these four figures are shown to be crucial and consequential, larger details of the world of America in the 1780s remain obscure.

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