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Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May – September 1787

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A classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced probably the most enduring of political documents: the Constitution of america.
From Catherine Drinker Bowen, noted American biographer and National Book Award winner, comes the canonical account of the Constitutional Convention beneficial as “required reading for each and every American.” Looked at straight from the records, the Federal Convention is startlingly fresh and new, and Mrs. Bowen evokes it as if the reader were in truth there, mingling with the delegates, hearing their arguments, witnessing a dramatic moment in history.
Here is the fascinating record of the hot, sultry summer months of debate and decision when ideas clashed and tempers flared. Here is the rustic as it was once then, described by contemporaries, by Berkshire farmers in Massachusetts, by Patrick Henry’s Kentucky allies, by French and English travelers. Here, too, are the offstage voices–Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine and John Adams from Europe.
In all, fifty-five men attended; and regardless of the warmth, regardless of clashing interests–the large states against the little, the slave states against the anti-slave states–in tension and anxiety that mounted week after week, they wrote out a working plan of government and put their signatures to it.

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