{"id":1318,"date":"2016-02-13T10:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T15:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2016-02-13T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T15:26:34","slug":"fergus-bordewich-congress-is-historically-contentious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Fergus Bordewich: Congress is historically contentious"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Career politicians, backroom deals, and Congressional contention are not exclusive to today\u2019s political landscape. As author and historian Fergus M. Bordewich would be quick to point out, \u201cthe great American tradition of political trench warfare\u201d was just as prevalent early years of the United States. Bordewich\u2019s new book, The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government<\/a>, discusses, well, exactly what the title suggests as it takes a gritty look at the founding fathers.<\/p>\n

While writing Washington, a book about the creation of Washington D.C., Bordewick found himself fascinated by the first Congress – the uncertainty, contention, and immense productivity. As Bordewich remarks, \u201c[the founding fathers in Congress] were working in the dark. Very few people had confidence that this new government created by the government would work.\u201d The book details the country\u2019s formative years truly as \u201can experiment,\u201d with President Washington and Congress simultaneously figuring out their respective roles.<\/p>\n

Listen in to hear<\/a> Bordewich disclose the little-known controversies of a brand new government and draw parallels to today\u2019s tumultuous climate. Bordewich is the author of seven non-fiction books and has contributed to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and more. He will be in town at the Thurber House<\/a> February 22nd.<\/p>\n

-Andy Ross<\/p>\n

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