Joseph Ellis, "The Quartet" 

Ellis, award-winning author of The Founding Fathers and American Sphinx, and perhaps the leading historian of the American Revolution, here considers that turbulent period from the perspective of the thirteen colonies. Asking why these regions would want to trade a new and hard-won autonomy for the possibility of subjugation to another state, Ellis looks at the series of steps that guaranteed states’ rights, and profiles the men who guided the Constitutional Convention.
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