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Ratification

The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

Ratification( )
Author: Maier, Pauline
ISBN:978-0-684-86855-4
Publication Date:Jun 2011
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $22.00
Book Description:

The defining book of the American Revolution era and a winner of the George Washington Book Award, Ratification chronicles the pivotal moments and key figures in transforming the US Constitution from an idea into a transformational document and the Constitutional Convention into a working government. When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal....
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Book Details
Pages:608
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / Constitutions
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.125 x 9.25 x 1.5 Inches
Book Weight:1.515 Pounds
Author Biography
Maier, Pauline (Author)
Pauline Maier was born on April 27, 1938 in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received an undergraduate degree in American history and literature from Radcliffe College in 1960, studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science on a Fulbright scholarship, and received a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. She was a history professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for three decades.

She wrote several books including From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776, The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams, and American Sculpture: Making the Declaration of Independence. She won the George Washington Book Prize for Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. She died of lung cancer on August 12, 2013 at the age of 75.

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