Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Collier, Christopher
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Annotation: Draws on the latest research and scholarly thinking to reconstruct the personality and ideological clashes that marked the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, and offers profiles of the fifty-five men who met in Philadelphia in 1787 to create the document that would become the cornerstone of American democracy.
Genre: [United States history]
 
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Catalog Number: #5818332
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House
Copyright Date: 1986
Edition Date: 2007 Release Date: 06/26/07
Pages: xiv, 432 pages
ISBN: 0-345-49840-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-345-49840-3
Dewey: 973
LCCN: 2007280286
Dimensions: 21 cm.
Subject Heading:
United States. Constitutional Convention. (1787).
Constitutional conventions. United States.
Constitutional history. United States.
Language: English
Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-421) and index.
Reading Level: 9.0
Interest Level: 9+

Includes a complete copy of the Constitution.
Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. "The best popular history of the Constitutional Convention available."--Library Journal

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