I read some reviews five weeks ago and bought this just prior to Christmas. The “coup” term is used to indicate that while the impetus was to reform the Articles of Confederation, once gathered, the wholesale new governmental form was what was settled on by the participants. That was not the pronounced purpose and as such, it was a coup against the Articles.
Thank you for the info, KC.
I’m still reading David McCullough’s *John Adams*; in it, I don’t get the sense of a coup; contention, yes, but not the chaos of a coup.