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The genius of the people
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Charles L. Mee |
"As it revealed itself in the strange mix of bankers, farmers, politicians, merchants, scholars and generals who struggled throughout the long summer of 1787 to construct a constitution unique in the… |
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Madison's hand
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Mary Sarah Bilder |
"New digital technologies and traditional historical investigation suggest that James Madison did not finish his famous Notes until after the Convention. The Notes are the most important, and most mi… |
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Fifty-five fathers
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Selma R. Williams |
Retells the story of the Philadelphia convention in 1787 drawing on the original notes of James Madison and on the diary of William Pierce. |
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The Summer of 1787
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David O. Stewart |
The successful creation of the Consititution is a suspense story. The Summery of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but endurin… |
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