Description:
Having won independence from England, America faced a new question: Would this be politically one nation, or would it not? E Pluribus Unum is a spirited look at how that question came to be answered.
Forrest McDonald is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Alabama and author of States' Rights and the Union.
Review Quotes:
"A fresh, vivid, and penetrating recreation of the crucial fourteen years in which a new nation was born. . . . With an awesome command of detail and meticulous story (especially of the newspaper sources) he tells of the story of the shaping of the Articles and of what he calls 'The Completion of the Revolution' state by state."
New York Times Book Review
"Original and stimulating"
American Historical Review
"A provocative and stimulating work with will lead scholars to reassess some of their assumptions about the formative years of the American republic."
Annals of the American Academy
"A worthwhile and illuminating book, highly readable and highly recommended."
Library Journal