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CONTENTS List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction   Winning Independence   Improving Rivers and Friendships   Framing and Ratifying the Constitution   Washington’s “Prime Minister”   Friendship Tested   Founding Washington, D.C.   Four More Years   “Neutrality”   Domestic Order and Disorder   Estrangement and Farewell  Epilogue  Notes  Selected Bibliography  Index  vii ...

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