Summer Of 1787 The Men Who Invented the Constitution

Name: Summer Of 1787 The Men Who Invented the Constitution
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ISBN: 9780743286930

ISBN-10: 0743286936

ISBN-13: 9780743286930

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Authors: David O. Stewart

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The successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story.The Summer of 1787takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation -- then and now. George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times.The Summer of 1787traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the world's first constitutional democracy. Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention's sharp conflicts and hard bargaining, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and…

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List price: $18.99
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 5/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

David O. Stewart is an award-winning author and the president of the Washington Independent Review of Books. He is the author of several acclaimed histories, including The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution as well as Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy, and American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America. Stewart's most recent book, his first novel, is The Lincoln Deception.



The Delegates


The United States in 1787



It Started at Mount Vernon: March 1785



Blood on the Snow: Winter 1787



"A House on Fire": Spring 1787



Demigods and Coxcombs Assemble: May 1787



Virginia Leads: May 25-June 1



Wilson's Bargain: May 31-June 10



Three-Fifths of a Human Being: June 11



Festina Lente: June 12-19



To the Brink: June 21-July 10



The Small States Win: July 11-17



The Touch of a Feather: July 9-14



The Ipswich Miracle: July 13



The Presidential Muddle: July 17-26



Rutledge Hijacks the Constitution: July 27-August 6



Back to Work: August 6



The Curse of Heaven: August 8-29



David Brearley's Presidency: August 24-September 7



The Loyal Opposition: August 31



With All Its Faults: September 8-17



Happiness, Perpetual and Otherwise: July 4, 1788



Making Amends



The Elector System



The Constitution of 1787


Notes


Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Index