Originally published in 1982. Despite a necessary preoccupation
with the Revolutionary struggle, America's Continental Congress
succeeded in establishing itself as a governing body with
national-and international-authority. How the Congress acquired and
maintained this power and how the delegates sought to resolve the
complex theoretical problems that arose in forming a federal
government are the issues confronted in Jack N. Rakove's searching
reappraisal of Revolution-era politics. Avoiding the tendency to
interpret the decisions of the Congress in terms of competing
factions or conflicting ideologies, Rakove opts for a more
pragmatic view. He reconstructs the political climate of the
Revolutionary period, mapping out both the immediate problems
confronting the Congress and the available alternatives as
perceived by the delegates. He recreates a landscape littered with
unfamiliar issues, intractable problems, unattractive choices, and
partial solutions, all of which influenced congressional decisions
on matters as prosaic as military logistics or as abstract as the
definition of federalism.
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