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Author Bordewich, Fergus M., author.

Title The First Congress : how James Madison, George Washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government / Fergus M. Bordewich.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.4 BORDEWICH    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  973.4 BOR    Storage
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  327.7309 BOR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  327.73 BOR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973 BORDEWICH    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction  973 BORDEWICH    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  327.73 BOR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.4 BOR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  327.73 BORDEWICH    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  973.4 BOR    Check Shelf

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xv, 396 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-377) and index.
Contents Preface: Nebuchadnezzar's monster -- An ocean always turbulent -- The fostering hand of government -- A new era -- Pomp and quiddling -- A very perplexing business -- A great and delicate subject -- Vile politiks -- Propositions of a doubtful nature -- Paper guarantees -- A centre without parallel -- Interlude I -- The labyrinth of finance -- A gross national iniquity -- The trumpet of sedition -- Cabals, meetings, plots & counterplots -- A southern position -- Indians -- Interlude II -- Freedom's fav'rite seat -- A most mischievous engine -- Epilogue: American dawn.
Summary "The First Congress was the most important in US history says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed--as many at the time feared it would--it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today,"--NoveList.
Subject United States. Congress (1st : 1789-1791)
United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1797.
United States. Congress. (OCoLC)fst00529490
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1789 - 1797
ISBN 9781451691931
1451691939
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