Research Catalog

Title

• Decision in Philadelphia : the Constitutional Convention of 1787 / Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier.

Author

Collier, Christopher, 1930-

Publication

New York : Random House : Reader's Digest, c1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-

Description

xvi, 331 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Chronicles the making of the United States Constitution and examines the men who created the document.

Subject

• 1787
• Constitutional Convention (United States : 1787)
• Constitutional conventions > United States
• Constitutional history > United States
• Founding Fathers of the United States
• Geschichte 1787
• United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

Genre/Form

Konstituante.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 307-322.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1: "Our case may become desperate". A nation in jeopardy ; America in 1787 ; The mind of James Madison ; The unbelievable George Washington ; Madison plans a government ; Alexander Hamilton and the British model ; The puzzle of Charles Pinckney ; Men, manners, and rules : the Convention begins -- pt. 2: The large states and the small. Roger Sherman and the art of compromise -- William Paterson picks a fight ; The battle joined ; Luther Martin and a lost opportunity ; "The most serious and threatening excitement" -- pt. 3: North and South. A new alliance ; The western lands ; Another trade-off -- pt. 4: The question of power. Balancing act ; Curing the republican disease ; James Wilson, democratic nationalist ; In the shadow of Washington ; Elbridge Gerry's war against the army ; George Mason and the rights of man ; "The most remarkable work."

ISBN

0394523466 :

LCCN

^^^84045750^

OCLC

11866936

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library