America's Second Revolution: How George Washington Defeated Patrick Henry and Saved the Nation

by Harlow Giles Unger

Overview

Every American Interested in understanding the American character and the American past should read this book. There are vivid history lessons on almost every page. The constitution becomes not merely a brilliant blueprint for governance. It is-and was-also the only alternative to chaos. - Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace

Acclaim for The Unexpected George Washington.

It's hard to imagine George Washington as playful, tender, or funny. But Harlow Unger searches to find these seldom-seen aspects of the private man, and the result is a fare more complete and believable founding father." - James C. Rees, Executive Director, Historic Mount Vernon

"An intimate view of the American hero who managed to follow his ambitions to great power without being disdained for them." - Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470107515
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	10/01/2007
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.52(h) x 1.01(d)

About the Author

HARLOW GILES UNGER is the author of fifteen books, including the award-winning Lafayette, John Hancock, and The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life. A veteran journalist, broadcaster, and historian, he is a graduate of Yale University and was a foreign correspondent for the Times and the Sunday Times of London.

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations.

Acknowledgments.

Chronology.

Introduction.

1 Victory’s Bitter Fruits.

2 The Great Debate.

3 The Great Compromise.

4 "The Seeds of Civil Discord".

5 The Road to Ratification.

6 "Unite or Die".

7 "Words to My Brother Ploughjoggers".

8 "A Fig and a Fiddle-stick’s End".

9 The Language of Secession.

10 On the Wings of the Tempest.

11 Birth of a Nation.

12 One Nation, Divisible . . .

Appendix A Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention.

The Constitution of the United States.

Resolution of the Convention.

Letter of the Convention to Congress.

Appendix B Signers of the Constitution.

Appendix C The Bill of Rights.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Credits.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

Advance Praise for America's Second Revolution
"Every American Interested in understanding the American character and the American past should read this book. There are vivid history lessons on almost every page. The constitution becomes not merely a brilliant blueprint for governance. It is—and was—also the only alternative to chaos." —Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace

Acclaim for The Unexpected George Washington

"It's hard to imagine George Washington as playful, tender, or funny. But Harlow Unger searches to find these seldom-seen aspects of the private man, and the result is a fare more complete and believable founding father." —James C. Rees, Executive Director, Historic Mount Vernon

"An intimate view of the American hero who managed to follow his ambitions to great power without being disdained for them." —Publishers Weekly

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