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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787

8 best books like Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 (Catherine Drinker Bowen): Battle Cry of Freedom, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution, The First Salute

Battle Cry of Freedom
AuthorJames M. McPherson
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.

James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and...
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
AuthorC. Vann Woodward
ISBN0195146905
C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this...
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
AuthorJack N. Rakove
ISBN0679781218
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so,...
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
AuthorPauline Maier
ISBN0684868547
When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether...
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
AuthorGordon S. Wood
ISBN1594202907
The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history.

More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American...
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic
AuthorJohn Ferling
ISBN0195176006
It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.

In...
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
AuthorRichard Beeman
ISBN1400065704
The popular view of the Constitution is pretty well expressed by John Milton, and I'll quote it here:God, from the Mount of Sinai, whose gray top shall tremble, He descending, will Himself, in thunder, lightning, and loud trumpets' sound, ordain them laws.
-Paradise LostWell, G-d did it through...
The First Salute
AuthorBarbara W. Tuchman
ISBN1842121774
"First Salute" is the best book I've read on the American Revolution. It starts with a mistaken cannon salute by an obscure cannoneer in a Dutch port in the Carribean which inadvertently recognizes the government of the rebelling colonies which is an insult to England which leads to war between England,...
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