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

byJoseph Ellis

In The Quartet, Joseph Ellis presents a historical account centered on orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of history and political science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. The emphasis stays on explanation, context, and the lived consequences behind the larger argument.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780804172486