Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
- ISBN-10
- 0345498402
- ISBN-13
- 9780345498403
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Authors
- James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier
Description
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. Reprint.
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- 2012-05-01
- 448 pages
- Ebook
- Blackstone Publishing
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