The Quartet
Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Ranked #29 in American Revolution, Ranked #57 in American History
In The Quartet, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph Ellis tells the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. 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. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, with the help of Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris, shaped the contours of... more
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