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Decision in Philadelphia : the Constitutional Convention of 1787 / Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier.
- Title
- Decision in Philadelphia : the Constitutional Convention of 1787 / Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier.
- Author
- Collier, Christopher, 1930-2020
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books : 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | KF4520 .C65 2007 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-
- Description
- xiv, 432 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Chronicles the making of the United States Constitution and examines the men who created the document.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-421) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "Our case may become desperate": Nation in jeopardy -- America in 1787 -- Mind of James Madison -- Unbelievable George Washington -- Madison plans a government -- Alexander Hamilton and the British model -- Puzzle of Charles Pinckney -- Men, manners, and rules: the convention begins -- Large states and the small: Roger Sherman and the art of compromise -- William Paterson picks a fight -- Battle joined -- Luther Martin and a lost opportunity -- "Most serious and threatening excitement" -- North and south: New alliance -- Western lands -- Another trade-off -- 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 -- "Most remarkable work."
- ISBN
- 9780345498403 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007280286
- OCLC
- 141385016
- SCSB-11236814
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library