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In the 1780s, four Founding Fathers diagnosed flaws in the recently signed Articles of Confederation and became determined to modify the charter. Prizewinning author Joseph J. Ellis explains how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison helped orchestrate the long, complex political process that ultimately resulted in the Constitutional Convention and the Bill of Rights.
Joseph J. Ellis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. His most recent book is The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789. Stacy Schiff (moderator) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Her forthcoming book on 1692 Salem, The Witches, will be published in late 2015.
LOCATION
The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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