Joseph J. Ellis Day and Time
The main idea of the book is that the early history of the new republic of the United States was not as trouble-free as we are sometimes led to believe. Ellis argues that in the popular imagination, the break from the British and the ideals of the American Revolution are seen as inevitable – almost part of what we might call America’s manifest destiny. However, he reveals that the unity of the early republic was a very fragile thing and that it almost broke up because of disagreements between the different states. Ellis further argues that the Union of the ...
