Plain, honest men : the making of the American Constitution
/ Richard Beeman
- 1st ed
- New York : Random House , 2009.
- xxvii, 514 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-448) and index.
"Plain, Honest Men" is a full-scale narrative account of the deliberations of the Founding Fathers at the Constitutional Convention. Beeman takes readers behind the scenes and into the streets, taverns, and mansions of Philadelphia to show how the Constitution was forged.