The Washington Post, May 17th, 1987
THE FORGING OF THE UNION, 1781-1789 By Richard B. Morris Harper & Row. 416 pp. $22.95 IN THE considered opinion of Frederick the Great, the erstwhile American colonies, militarily triumphant to be sure but only tenuously united by Articles of Confederation and nationally governed by a virtually leaderless body of limited authority called "The United States in Congress Assembled," would not long survive as an independent state. "Little by little, colony by colony, province by province," the brilliant monarch predicted in December 1782, a year and a month after the British redcoats laid down the...
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