The First Congress
Subtitle: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781451692136
Description: From the Introduction...

As Congress assembled that dank and chilly spring of 1789, the world seemed new, and Americans felt in their hearts that they stood at the dawn of a new epoch. “All ranks & degrees of men seemed to be actuated by one common impulse, to fill the galleries as soon as the doors of the House of Representatives were opened for the first time,” recalled an elderly James Kent, who as an enthralled child had watched the Congress's first stirrings. “I considered it to be a proud & glorious day, the consummation of our wishes; & that I was looking upon an organ of popular will, just beginning to breathe the Breath of Life, & which might in some future age, much more truly than the Roman Senate, be regarded as ‘the refuge of nations.' ”
Table of contents: label: Epigraph; label: Members Of The First Federal Congress; label: Introduction
title: Nebuchadnezzar's Monster; label: Chapter 1
title: An Ocean Always Turbulent; label: Chapter 2
title: The Fostering Hand of Government; label: Chapter 3
title: A New Era; label: Chapter 4
title: Pomp and Quiddling; label: Chapter 5
title: A Very Perplexing Business; label: Chapter 6
title: A Great and Delicate Subject; label: Chapter 7
title: Vile Politicks; label: Chapter 8
title: Propositions of a Doubtful Nature; label: Chapter 9
title: Paper Guarantees; label: Chapter 10
title: A Centre Without Parallel; label: Chapter 11
title: Interlude I; label: Chapter 12
title: The Labyrinth of Finance; label: Chapter 13
title: A Gross National Iniquity; label: Chapter 14
title: The Trumpet of Sedition; label: Chapter 15
title: Cabals, Meetings, Plots, and Counterplots; label: Chapter 16
title: A Southern Position; label: Chapter 17
title: Indians; label: Chapter 18
title: Interlude II; label: Chapter 19
title: Freedom's Fav'rite Seat; label: Chapter 20
title: A Most Mischievous Engine; label: Epilogue
title: American Dawn; label: Afterword; label: Photographs; label: Acknowledgments; label: About Fergus M. Bordewich; label: 'The Looming Conflict' By Fergus M. Bordewich; label: Notes; label: Selected Bibliography; label: Index