{"product_id":"schools-for-statesmen-andrew-h-browning-9780700633098","title":"Schools for Statesmen: The Divergent Educations of the Constitutional Framers","description":"\"Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro' a Man's whole future Conduct.\"----William Livingston, signer of the Constitution \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchools for Statesmen\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fifty-five individual Framers of the Constitution in close detail and argues that their different educations help explain their divergent positions at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Those educations ranged from outlawed Irish \"hedge schools\" to England's venerable Inns of Court, from the grammar schools of New England to ambitious new academies springing up on the Carolina frontier. The more traditional schools that focused on Greek and Latin classics (Oxford, Harvard, Yale, William and Mary) were deeply conservative institutions resistant to change. But the Scottish colleges and the newer American schools (Princeton, Philadelphia, King's College) introduced students to a Scottish Enlightenment curriculum that fostered more radical, forward-thinking leaders. Half of the Framers had no college education and were often self-taught or had private tutors; most were quiet at the convention, although a few stubbornly opposed the new ideas they were hearing. Nearly all the delegates who took the lead at the convention had been educated at the newer, innovative colleges, but of the seven who rejected the new Constitution, three had gone to the older traditional schools, while three others had not gone to college at all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchools for Statesmen\u003c\/i\u003e is an unprecedented analysis of the sharply divergent educations of the Framers of the Constitution. It reveals the ways in which the Constitutional Convention, rather than being a counterrevolution by conservative elites, was dominated by forward-thinking innovators who had benefited from the educational revolution beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndrew Browning offers a new and persuasive explanation of key disagreements among the Framers and the process by which they were able to break through the impasse that threatened the convention; he provides a fresh understanding of the importance of education in what has been called the \"Critical Period\" of US history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchools for Statesmen\u003c\/i\u003e takes a deep dive into the diverse educational world of the eighteenth century and sheds new light on the origins of the US Constitution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew H. Browning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 070063309X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700633098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Andrew H. Browning","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43945832874239,"sku":"9780700633098","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9c928b86-8eec-4c13-8959-dee90cd4a1e3.jpg?v=1681510015","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/schools-for-statesmen-andrew-h-browning-9780700633098","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}