About this title: A true-life suspense story, "The Summer of 1787" takes readers into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that had come to define the nation, then and now.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2007-04-10
ISBN-13:9780743286923ISBN:0743286928
Description: Very Good. Book HAS remainder mark. Book is NEW, but the dust jacket has mild creasing around the edges of the spine and corners. read more
Description: Fine. 0743286936 Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743286923ISBN:0743286928
Description: New in New jacket. Book Club Edition. 8vo. New in a New dustjacket. Pristine Book Club Edition: makes a splendid reading copy (and being a Book Club issue has not changed a single syllable of its content--trust us! ) read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743286923ISBN:0743286928
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 349 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743286923ISBN:0743286928
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 9780743286923 Cover has small shallow edge indent, tiny bump on bottom tip and jacket. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Index. 349pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008-05-20
ISBN-13:9780743286930ISBN:0743286936
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780743286930ISBN:0743286936
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"A well written narrative on the creation of the constitution and the historical characters who participated. A real eye opener on how and why the govt. works in its mysterious ways."
"I loved this book. Stewart brings these men to life. We see how determined they were, despite their tremendous differences of opinion, to do what they set out to do: write a constitution for the United States. I especially enjoyed comparing their efforts to those of Congress today grappling to bring both sides together in health care reform."
"i didn't realize slavery was so front and center in the constitutional discussions. politics (unity was more important than morality, it seems) won the day, and not only was slavery not abolished, but slave states were allowed to count their slaves for representation purposes, though only as 3/5ths of a person. yes, really.
david o. stewart seems to have a bit of a slant towards the virginians, whom he sees as the movers/shakers, and whose "virginia plan" he identifies as the blueprint for the constitution. the other big state, pennsylvania, has its own heavyweights, such as franklin and wilson, and colorful characters from the south and new england round out the roster of these important dead white men. the book is at its best when describing the concurrent events and the context -- sunday trips out to bartram's garden, entertainments at the morris house, intrigues at the rooming house where delegates stayed, the humid philadelphia summer weather. more of this would have made it more interesting. as it is, it gets dry/slow in parts.
the other revelation was the battle between big states and small states, which the small states seem to have won, with equal representation in the senate, and with the byzantine electoral college that baffles the world to this day."
"A concise history of the Consitutional convention; largely doesn't deal with the subsequent wrangling by the various states that produces the Bill of Rights......deals in detail with the struggle between the large and the small states as well as the slave-holding states with the northeastern (non-slave) states. Not a long read and not terribly concerned with explaining the long-terms ramifications of the various compromises and agreements made in Philadelphia that summer.
In many respects, the "short" story of that convention....."
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