It Was a New World

The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World 1788-1800, by Jay Winik (Harper Collins, 688 pp., $29.95)

IN his insightful and brilliantly narrated new book, Jay Winik tells the stories of the French Revolution, the war between Catherine the Great’s Russia and the Ottoman Empire, and the United States from the adoption of the Constitution to the election of Jefferson – three chapters from the waning years of the 18th century that, together, amount to what Winik calls a “great upheaval,” the “crucible” that formed the modern world.

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Michael Knox Beran

Michael Knox Beran, a lawyer and writer, is the author of WASPs: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy.

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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World 1788-1800, by Jay Winik (Harper Collins, 688 pp., $29.95)

IN his insightful and brilliantly narrated new book, Jay Winik tells the stories of the French Revolution, the war between Catherine the Great’s Russia and the Ottoman Empire, and the United States from the adoption of the Constitution to the election of Jefferson – three chapters from the waning years of the 18th century that, together, amount to what Winik calls a “great upheaval,” the “crucible” that formed the modern world.