Autor/-in: Peers MacDonagh

Peers MacDonagh grew up in County Galway with a deep fascination for political history and the gap between the ideals republics proclaim and the messy institutional realities through which they govern themselves. After years of reading in the archives of the American founding, he became absorbed by the forgotten crises - the moments of near-failure that shaped the republic's design far more than its celebrated triumphs. Soldiers Without Pay. grew from his conviction that the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 is the founding era's most consequential overlooked episode: the crisis that made the Constitution urgent, the District Clause necessary, and Washington, D. C. , inevitable. He is the author of several works of narrative history and lives on the west coast of Ireland.