While that emphasis comes at the cost of attention to social realities, the author sharply clarifies the stages that the founding generation went through to create their governments and the struggles to understand what they were doing. In his latest, he once again demonstrates his characteristic clarity in an examination of the origins and growth of American constitutional principles from the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 into the 19th century, “the most creative period of constitutionalism in American history and one of the most creative in modern Western history.” This introduction to the formative half-century of American history maintains a taut focus on the nation’s early constitutional development. No historian knows more about the founding years of the U.S. The Pulitzer and Bancroft winner delivers another masterful book of Revolutionary War–era history.
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