{"product_id":"madisons-hand-mary-sarah-bilder-9780674979741","title":"Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Bancroft Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the James Bradford Best Biography Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Literary Award for Nonfiction, Library of Virginia\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, George Washington Prize \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Madison's Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the U.S. Constitution's creation. No document provides a more complete record of the deliberations in Philadelphia or depicts the Convention's charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with such narrative force. But how reliable is this account? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" A] superb study of the Constitutional Convention as selectively reflected in Madison's voluminous notes on it...Scholars have been aware that Madison made revisions in the \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e but have not intensively explored them. Bilder has looked closely indeed at the \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e and at his revisions, and the result is this lucid, subtle book. It will be impossible to view Madison's role at the convention and read his \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e in the same uncomplicated way again...An accessible and brilliant rethinking of a crucial moment in American history.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Robert K. Landers, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Sarah Bilder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674979745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674979741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.60w x 0.70d","brand":"Mary Sarah Bilder","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992272699647,"sku":"9780674979741","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0862601e-9674-4e73-8955-1cef43c7e692.jpg?v=1683315084","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/madisons-hand-mary-sarah-bilder-9780674979741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}