英文原版《The Quartet》精装，作者约瑟夫·埃里斯是美国历史学专家，普利策历史奖得主。讲述了华盛顿、汉密尔顿、约翰·杰伊和麦迪逊四位开国元勋是如何为美国确立了前进的道路，将1783年独立战争结束到1789年制宪会议之间的美国历史和事件，生动地展现在读者面前。原价168元，现团购价38元包邮！

　　约瑟夫·J·埃利斯，是研究美国早期历史的专家，尤其精于创作描述剖析建国之父一代人的作品。他的著作包括《激情传奇：约翰·亚当斯的性格与遗产》、《多面人：本杰明·富兰克林传》、《美国的狮身人面像：托马斯·杰弗逊的性格》和《建国兄弟：革命世代》等。其中后两本书分别获得美国国家图书奖和普利策历史奖。
　　目前他和妻子埃伦、幼子亚历克斯居住在马萨诸塞州阿默斯特小镇。

　　JOSEPH J. ELLIS is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Founding Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen, his youngest son, three dogs, and a cat.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution
作    者： Joseph J. Ellis
出 版 社： Knopf 
条 形 码： 9780385353403
出版时间： 2015/5/1 
开    本： 16开 
页    数： 320
定    价： 168 元
内容简介
　　From Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
　　We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new Nation.” The truth is different. In 1776, thirteen American colonies declared themselves independent states that only temporarily joined forces in order to defeat the British. Once victorious, they planned to go their separate ways. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor a political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their autonomy as states.
The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men most responsible—George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. These men, with the help of Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris, shaped the contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force the calling of the Constitutional Convention, conspiring to set the agenda in Philadelphia, orchestrating the debate in the state ratifying conventions, and, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to assure state compliance with the constitutional settlement.
　　Ellis has given us a gripping and dramatic portrait of one of the most crucial and misconstrued periods in American history: the years between the end of the Revolution and the formation of the federal government. The Quartet unmasks a myth, and in its place presents an even more compelling truth—one that lies at the heart of understanding the creation of the United States of America.