The Revolution of 1787
Subtitle: The Making of the American Constitution
Publisher: Random House
Published: February 3, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781400065707
Subjects: History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); United States - Revolutionary War; History; History - Military / War; History: American
Description: From distinguished historian Richard Beeman comes a dramatic and engrossing account of the men who met in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 to design a radically new form of government. Beeman takes readers behind the scenes and beyond the debate to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and, eventually, fragile consensus during a time when many Americans feared that a combination of financial distress and civil unrest would doom the young nation's experiment in liberty.