Looks at the history of the United States during the period between the end of the Revolution and the establishment of the federal government, and discusses the country's economic and social conditions

The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789 (The New American Nation Series)

History

Richard B. Morris

Americas

Harper&Row

A series of biographical sketches of Franklin, Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jay, and Hamilton, author Richard B. Morris explores the nature of American's revolutionary leadership, the various courses of action that led to commitment to the American cause.  Why just the seven?  All the rest can be excluded o the ground that none filled the variety of high-level posts in state and nation that the seven did, that none performed that amazing range of public services that stamp the Seven not only as indomitable but even exceptional in an age of versatility.  The book focuses on two questions:  What made an elite prosperous and conservative, members of the Establishment, one might say, turn against their king and start a revolution?  Having made that irrevocable commitment, what difference did their leadership mean to the conduct and goals of the American Revolution; in what way did their participation invest that epochal conflict with a very special character?  Fortunately in all Seven cases we have enough available documentation to see them on their own ground and judge them on their own terms.

Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny : The Founding Fathers As Revolutionaries

Harpercollins

HarperCollins (paper)

Morris deals with the kinds of bias that color interpretations of human nature. Morris takes a look at the anthropology-archaeology-psychology tradition, noting the corruptions of evolution-by-natural-selection by assorted thinkers, as well as by the Carnegies and Rockefellers. 203 pages.

Evolution And Human Nature

Avon Discus Books

The Life History of the United States Before 1775

Time-Life Books, Inc.

The War of 1812 by Richard B. Morris; Illustrator-Leonard E (1985-05-03)

First Avenue Editions

The American Revolution, 1763-1783;: A bicentennial collection

University of South Carolina Press

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