No future session of Congress will ever have so arduous and weighty a charge on their hands, the New York Gazette observed in summer 1789.
Allen brings decades of experience and a gifted storyteller\'s eye to the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the other Founders set the Federal government into motion..
Veteran journalist Thomas B. 1789: The Founders Create America draws on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, setting out to show the world at large that a new--and very American--form of government was calling itself into being.
But 1789 was the year the government it described--albeit only in the broadest of terms--had to be brought into being.
The constitution had been written in 1787 and ratified in 1788.
No examples to imitate, and no striking historical facts on which to ground their decisions--All is bare creation.
No future session of Congress will ever have so arduous and weighty a charge on their hands, the New York Gazette observed in summer 1789
