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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution

10 best books like Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (Richard Beeman): All Things Wise and Wonderful, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution, Washington, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History

All Things Wise and Wonderful
AuthorJames Herriot
ISBN0312335288
The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series

Readers adored James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of...
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
AuthorCatherine Drinker Bowen
ISBN0316103985
A classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents: the Constitution of the United States.
From Catherine Drinker Bowen, noted American biographer and National Book Award winner, comes the...
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
AuthorJoseph J. Ellis
ISBN0385349629
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.

The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed...
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 Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
AuthorHenry Gee
ISBN0226284883
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed...
Washington
AuthorDouglas Southall Freeman
ISBN0684826372
"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).

Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall...
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
AuthorHenry Wiencek
ISBN0374175268
A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery

When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking...
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
AuthorJack N. Rakove
ISBN0618267468
In this remarkable and elegantly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on America’s revolutionaries. In his hands, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and Hamilton were not pitchfork-wielding radicals or relentless power...
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
AuthorBrian Kilmeade
ISBN1591848067
From the authors of the  New York Times  bestseller  George Washington’s Secret Six , the little-known story of Thomas Jefferson’s battle to defend America against Islamic pirates.

Brian Kilmeade – cohost of “Fox & Friends” on Fox News and the national radio...
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