A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American ConstitutionHarperCollins, 2003 M10 20 - 322 páginas Historian Carol Berkin's A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution is a rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the men who shaped its political future. "Just as the Constitution was a brilliant solution to the problems of the 1780s, Carol Berkin's book is a brilliant account of the making of that constitution. Written with great verve and clarity, it nicely captures all the contingency and unpredictability in the framing of the Constitution."—Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood Though the American Revolution is widely recognized as our nation's founding story, the years immediately following the war — when our government was a disaster and the country was in a terrible crisis — were in fact the most crucial in establishing the country's independence. The group of men who traveled to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 had no idea what kind of history their meeting would make. But all their ideas, arguments, and compromises — from the creation of the Constitution itself, article by article, to the insistence that it remain a living, evolving document — laid the foundation for a government that has surpassed the founders' greatest hopes. Revisiting all the original historical documents of the period and drawing from her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century politics, Carol Berkin opens up the hearts and minds of America's founders, revealing the issues they faced, the times they lived in, and their humble expectations of success. |
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... election of 2000 and the bombing of the Pentagon and the World Trade Center—made me realize that, after thirty years as a historian, I begin every struggle to understand the present with a search of the past. On November 7, 2000, with ...
... election of 2000 and the bombing of the Pentagon and the World Trade Center—made me realize that, after thirty years as a historian, I begin every struggle to understand the present with a search of the past. On November 7, 2000, with ...
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... election. Albert Gore or George W. Bush—Americans would learn the name of the victor over their morning coffee. It was not so. For weeks, indeed months, what will surely become the most celebrated disputed election in presidential ...
... election. Albert Gore or George W. Bush—Americans would learn the name of the victor over their morning coffee. It was not so. For weeks, indeed months, what will surely become the most celebrated disputed election in presidential ...
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... The image of the United States, and of its government, projected in the election crisis and the terrorist attacks makes the leap across the centuries to 1787 a difficult one. It takes a conscious act of imagination to 4 Carol Berkin.
... The image of the United States, and of its government, projected in the election crisis and the terrorist attacks makes the leap across the centuries to 1787 a difficult one. It takes a conscious act of imagination to 4 Carol Berkin.
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... election of the president in 2000 while the election of many Congress members was noted only in passing? What would they think of the hybrid of universal suffrage and their older mechanism of an electoral college? How could we reassure ...
... election of the president in 2000 while the election of many Congress members was noted only in passing? What would they think of the hybrid of universal suffrage and their older mechanism of an electoral college? How could we reassure ...
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