Two of America’s Leading Historians Look at the Nation’s Founding Once Again — to Understand It in All Its Complexity

Joseph J. Ellis’s “The Cause” and Gordon S. Wood’s “Power and Liberty” argue that the Constitution was a necessary compromise.Joseph J. Ellis’s “The Cause” and Gordon S. Wood’s “Power and Liberty” argue that the Constitution was a necessary compromise.Read MoreBooks and Literature, Slavery (Historical), Constitution (US), Revolutionary War, American (1775-83), Ellis, Joseph J, Wood, Gordon S, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution (Book), The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Book)