Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

“I am not a Federalist,” he declared in 1789, “because I never submitted the who…”

“James Jackson actually made menacing faces at the Quakers in the gallery, calli…”

“Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton a…”

“The first symptom of the trouble appeared when Madison studied Hamilton’s propo…”