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020 _a9781400065707
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_b.B44 2009
082 0 0 _a342.029 BEE
100 1 _aBeeman, Richard R.
245 1 0 _aPlain, honest men
_b: the making of the American Constitution
_c/ Richard Beeman
250 _a1st ed
260 _aNew York
_b: Random House
_c, 2009.
300 _axxvii, 514 p.
_b: ill.
_c; 24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [447]-448) and index.
520 _a"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.
610 1 0 _aUnited States
_b. Constitutional Convention
_d, 1787
650 0 _aConstitutional history
_x--United States
942 _cMO
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