The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Rev

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Lot number1311
Auction**Auction Ends** SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2026 at 7PM!
DateSeptember 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM EDT
Auction houseBluegrass Bids
LocationLexington, Kentucky

Title: The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 Condition: New In Packaging?: Yes Assembly Required?: No Damaged?: No Functional?: Yes Missing Parts?: No ASIN: 0385353405 From Pulitzer Prize winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. We all kn us opening phrase of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new Nation." The truth is different. In 1776, thirteen American colonies declared themselves independent states that only y joined forces in order to defeat the British. Once victorious, they planned to go their separate ways. The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men most responsible George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and Ja

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