The Essential Debate on the Constitution
Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches and Writings
$35.53
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2018
Summary
Return to the nation’s founding to rediscover the dramatic original debates—on presidential power, religious liberty, foreign corruption, and more—that still shape our world today.
When the Constitutional Convention adjourned on September 17, 1787, few Americans anticipated the document that emerged from its secret proceedings. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other framers had fashioned something radically new, a strong national government with broad powers. A fierce storm …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598535839 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598535838 |
| Author: | Bernard Bailyn, Robert Allison |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 488g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 124mm x 201mm |
Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Voyagers to the West, and the National Book Award-winning The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson.
Robert J. Allison is professor of history at Suffolk University in Boston and also teaches at the Harvard Extension School. Allison is the author of The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779-1820, A Short History of Boston, and The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction.
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