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Plain, Honest Men: The Making Of The American Constitution

Plain, Honest Men: The Making Of The American Constitution Hardcover - 2009

by Beeman, Richard

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New York: Random House. Hardcover. 2009. 1st Edition. 8vo 514pp . Fine in Fine DJ.
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  • Title Plain, Honest Men: The Making Of The American Constitution
  • Author Beeman, Richard
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine in Fine DJ
  • Pages 514
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House, New York
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 032850
  • ISBN 9781400065707 / 1400065704
  • Weight 1.96 lbs (0.89 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.81 x 6.56 x 1.44 in (24.92 x 16.66 x 3.66 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Constitutional history - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008028841
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.730

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Richard Beeman is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of five previous books on the history of revolutionary America; his biography of Patrick Henry was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received awards from, among others, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has served as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He also serves as a trustee and vice-chair of the Distinguished Scholars Panel of the National Constitution Center. Richard Beeman lives in Philadelphia.

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“In sprightly, engaging prose and with a sure, steady scholarly hand, Rick Beeman has given us a vivid account of the most vital chapter of our early history: the making of the Constitution. This is a terrific book.”—Jon Meacham, author of American Lion

“Beeman eschews the heroic version of the story in favor of a hard-eyed narrative that in no way diminishes the Framers’ achievement. . . . In a motion-by-motion, day-by-day, debate-by-debate fashion, he re-creates the [delegates’] hard bargaining. . . . Masterfully told American history for the scholar and general reader alike.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men.”—Gouverneur Morris

“Authoritative and readable . . . Beeman's work is distiguished by a gently judicious tone that allows us to appreciate, and draw some lessons from, the delicate balances that emerged out of that passion-filled Philadelphia crucible.” —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review

“The fullest and most authoritative account of the Constitutional Convention ever written.” – Gordon S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution

About the author

Richard Beeman is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of five previous books on the history of revolutionary America; his biography of Patrick Henry was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received awards from, among others, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has served as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He also serves as a trustee and vice-chair of the Distinguished Scholars Panel of the National Constitution Center. Richard Beeman lives in Philadelphia.

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