The Summer of 1787
The Men Who Invented the Constitution
Published on 20. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-7432-8693-0 (ISBN)
Description
A true-life suspense story, "The Summer of 1787" takes readers into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that had come to define the nation, then and now.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Charts; Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7432-8693-0 (9780743286930)
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E-Book
04/2007
1st Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
€14.83
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Person
David O. Stewart is an award-winning author and the president of the Washington Independent Review of Books. He is the author of several acclaimed histories, including Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America; The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution; Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy; and American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America. Stewart’s first novel is The Lincoln Deception.