3.0%OFF
Download App
| >> | LShop | >> | Book | >> | Reference, Informati... | >> | Encyclopaedias & Ref... | >> | The Summer Of 1787: ... |
3.0%OFF
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
-
ISBN
:
9780743286930
-
Publisher
:
Simon & Schuster
-
Subject
:
Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
-
Binding
:
Paperback
-
Year
:
2008
₹
1088.0
3.0% OFF
₹
1055.0
1055.0
Buy Now
Shipping charges are applicable for books below Rs. 101.0
View Details(Imported Edition) Estimated Shipping Time : 25-28 Business Days
View Details
-
Description
The successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation -- 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 world's first constitutional democracy. Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention'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 alloted according to population rather than to each sovereign state? And what of slavery? The supercharged debates over America'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 known -- Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, Edmund Randolph -- 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 Washington's quiet leadership and the delegates' inspired compromises held the Convention together.In a country continually arguing over the document's original intent, it is fascinating to watch these powerful characters struggle toward consensus -- often reluctantly -- to write a flawed but living and breathing document that could evolve with the nation.
Related Items
-
of
-
OFFER
Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
David O. Stewart
Starts At
1113.0
1280.0
13% OFF
-
OFFER
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
David O. Stewart
Starts At
2095.0
2303.0
9% OFF
-
OFFER
Encyclopaedia of Great Men of India (21 to 30 Vols.)
S. Gajrani
Starts At
10260.0
13500.0
24% OFF
-
OFFER
An Illustrated Encyclopaedia Customs of the World :A Popular Account of the Manners, Rites and Ceremonies of Men and Women in All Countries.
Walter Hutchinson
Starts At
4560.0
6000.0
24% OFF
-
OFFER
Making Love, Playing Power: Men, Women, & the Rewards of Intimate Justice illustrated edition Edition
Ken Dolan-del Vecchio
Starts At
979.0
1361.0
28% OFF
-
OFFER
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Among Lesbians and Gay Men
Beverly A. Greene
Starts At
12177.0
14160.0
14% OFF
-
OFFER
Stigma and Sexual Orientation: Understanding Prejudice Against Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexuals
Starts At
12030.0
13989.0
14% OFF
-
OFFER
Unmasking the Masculine: Men' and Identity' in a Sceptical Age
Alan Petersen
Starts At
3110.0
3617.0
14% OFF
-
OFFER
Affirmative Psychotherapy and Counseling for Lesbians and Gay Men
Melissa R. Johnson
Starts At
652.0
750.0
13% OFF
-
OFFER
Affirmative Psychotherapy and Counseling for Lesbians and Gay Men
Melissa R. Johnson
Starts At
652.0
750.0
13% OFF
-
OFFER
Professional Men, Professional Women: The European Professions from the Nineteenth Century Until Today
Maria Malatesta
Starts At
826.0
950.0
13% OFF
-
OFFER
Social Work Practice with African American Men: The Invisible Presence
Janice M. Rasheed
Starts At
6161.0
7165.0
14% OFF
-
OFFER
Trust Is the Coin of the Realm: Lessons from the Money Men in Afghanistan
Edwina A. Thompson
Starts At
815.0
995.0
18% OFF
-
OFFER
Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City New ed Edition
David T. Courtwright
Starts At
2059.0
2900.0
29% OFF
