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• Author/Creator: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.
  
• ISBN:9781451691931
  1451691939
  9781451692136
  
• Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  
• Publication:New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2016
  
• Physical Description:xv, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  

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  • Call Number: JK1059 1st .B67X 2016 (LC)
    
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• 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.
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes 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 politics -- 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 favorite seat -- A most mischievous engine -- Epilogue: American dawn.
  
• Subjects:United States. Congress (1st : 1789-1791)
  United States. Congress.
  Politics and government.
  United States--Politics and government--1789-1797.
  United States.