The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (The

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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (The Simon & Schuster America Collection)

The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nationâ€”then and now.

George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the worldâ€™s first constitutional democracy. Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Conventionâ€™s sharp conflicts and hard bargaining, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and contradictions of the, often, painful process of writing the Constitution.

It was a desperate balancing act. Revolutionary principles required that the people have power, but could the people be trusted? Would a stronger central government leave room for the states? Would the small states accept a Congress in which seats were allotted according to population rather than to each sovereign state? And what of slavery? The supercharged debates over Americaâ€™s original sin led to the most creative and most disappointing political deals of the Convention.

The room was crowded with colorful and passionate characters, some knownâ€”Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, Edmund Randolphâ€”and others largely forgotten. At different points during that sultry summer, more than half of the delegates threatened to walk out, and some actually did, but Washingtonâ€™s quiet leadership and the delegatesâ€™ inspired compromises held the Convention together.

In a country continually arguing over the documentâ€™s original intent, it is fascinating to watch these powerful characters struggle toward consensusâ€”often reluctantlyâ€”to write a flawed but living and breathing document that could evolve with the nation.

Country	USA
Author	David O. Stewart
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781416554042
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	369
PublicationDate	2007-04-10
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2007-04-10
Studio	Simon & Schuster

The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (The Simon & Schuster America Collection)

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