To Rescue the Constitution

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Correspondent,a blockbuster new biography of George Washingtoncentering on his return from retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and secure the future of the United States. George Washington rescued the nation and the Constitution three times: first by winning the Revolutionary Warsecond by presiding over the Constitutional Convention and ushering the Constitution through a fractious ratification processand third by leading the nation as president in its first years. There is no doubt that the struggling new nation needed to be rescued. After the victorious warwhen a spirit of unity and patriotism might have been expectedinstead the nation was broken. The states were no more than a loosely knit and contentious confederationwith no strong central union. They were in constant conflict. A frustrated Washington wrote to James Madison\