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A Child of Fortune
- Author
- Jeffrey St. John
- Narrator
- Jeff Riggenbach
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2007
- Run Time
- 10 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In this exciting audio production, prize-winning journalist and historian Jeffrey St. John simulates day-by-day reportage to make you a firsthand witness to the 1787–1788 political battle to ratify the US Constitution. Discover how close both sides of the debate came to resorting to violence and rigged elections and witness Patrick Henry’s challenge to a pistol duel at the Virginia convention. Observe the Constitution’s sanction of slavery and the delegate revolts it produced, Massachusetts Governor John Hancock’s secret deal to deliver his state in return for support of his candidacy for the presidency, and how the soft-voiced James Madison defeated America’s greatest orator.
Vastly entertaining, this book is both a popular history and an important contribution to the study of the founding of the American Republic.
Critics Review
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“This book and its companion Constitutional Journal should be required reading to graduate from high school.”
U.S. Supreme Court former Chief Justice Warren Burger
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“The ratification of the American Constitution…was an exciting occurrence that still reverberates throughout our world and that will continue to do so throughout the new century and beyond.”
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Details
- Author
- Jeffrey St. John
- Narrator
- Jeff Riggenbach
- Duration
- 10 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2007
- ISBN
- 9781481578325
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- History of the Americas, Legal systems: civil procedure, litigation and dispute resolution
Synopsis
In this exciting audio production, prize-winning journalist and historian Jeffrey St. John simulates day-by-day reportage to make you a firsthand witness to the 1787–1788 political battle to ratify the US Constitution. Discover how close both sides of the debate came to resorting to violence and rigged elections and witness Patrick Henry’s challenge to a pistol duel at the Virginia convention. Observe the Constitution’s sanction of slavery and the delegate revolts it produced, Massachusetts Governor John Hancock’s secret deal to deliver his state in return for support of his candidacy for the presidency, and how the soft-voiced James Madison defeated America’s greatest orator.Vastly entertaining, this book is both a popular history and an important contribution to the study of the founding of the American Republic.
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