Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Title: Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 Artist or Composer: Ellis, Joseph J UPC: 9780553550733 Label: Random House Audio Released: 2015 Format: Digital (Books & IBC Music) Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Very light wear to disc. Case and artwork included but clearly used. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. G 1383796 Publisher Description: From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, 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. We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new Nation." The truth is different. In 1776, thirteen American colonies declared themselves independent states that only