The First Congress2016
how James Madison, George Washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government
by Fergus M. Bordewich
The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed--as many at the time feared it would--it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today.
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