Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
Mary Sarah Bilder, "Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention"
English | ISBN: 0674979745 | 2017 | 384 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0674979745 | 2017 | 384 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the James Bradford Best Biography Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Finalist, Literary Award for Nonfiction, Library of Virginia
Finalist, George Washington Prize
James Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the U.S. Constitution’s creation. No document provides a more complete record of the deliberations in Philadelphia or depicts the Convention’s charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with such narrative force. But how reliable is this account?
“[A] superb study of the Constitutional Convention as selectively reflected in Madison’s voluminous notes on it…Scholars have been aware that Madison made revisions in the
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