fbpx
Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
Tucker Carlson
The popular FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers his signature… Read more
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Charles Murray
Coming Apart – an acclaimed bestseller that explains why white America has… Read more
Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism
Azar Gat
What are the origins of nationalism and why is it… Read more
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
Matthew Continetti
A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American… Read more
American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy
Andrew J. Bacevich
In a challenging, provocative book, Andrew Bacevich reconsiders the assumptions… Read more

More Books »

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 (2015)

Joseph Ellis

In The Quartet, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph Ellis tells the unexpected story of America’s second great founding and of the men most responsible—Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, and James Madison:  why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. These men, with the help of Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris, shaped the contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force the calling of the Constitutional Convention, conspiring to set the agenda in Philadelphia, orchestrating the debate in the state ratifying conventions, and, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to assure state compliance with the constitutional settlement, created the new republic. Ellis gives us a dramatic portrait of one of the most crucial and misconstrued periods in American history: the years between the end of the Revolution and the formation of the federal government.

The Quartet
 unmasks a myth, and in its place presents an even more compelling truth—one that lies at the heart of understanding the creation of the United States of America. 

Purchase the Book