Decision in Philadelphia : the Constitutional Convention of 1787 /

Collier, Christopher, -1930

Decision in Philadelphia : the Constitutional Convention of 1787 / Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier. - New York : Random House :;Reader's Digest Press, c1986. - xvi, 331 p. 24 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [307]-322.

Includes a complete copy of the Constitution. Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. "The best popular history of the Constitutional Convention available."--Library Journal "From the Paperback edition." www.alibris.com

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Constitutional conventions--United States.
Constitutional history--United States.

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