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Fergus M. Bordewich

Biography

Fergus M. Bordewich

Fergus M. Bordewich is the author of several books, among them WASHINGTON: The Making of the American Capital; BOUND FOR CANAAN, a national history of the Underground Railroad; and AMERICA'S GREAT DEBATE: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history. His articles have appeared in many magazines and newspapers. He lives in San Francisco.

Fergus M. Bordewich

Books by Fergus M. Bordewich

The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
by Fergus M. Bordewich - History, Nonfiction, Politics

The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prize-winning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed, it’s possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today. The Constitution was a broad set of principles. It was left to the members of the First Congress and President George Washington to create the machinery that would make the government work. Fortunately, James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and others less well known today rose to the occasion.

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