Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787, Vol. 1 FROM THE PUBLISHER
Miracle at Philadelphia is Catherine Drinker Bowen's classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents - the Constitution of the United States.
FROM THE CRITICS
Margaret L. Coit - Saturday Review
A fascinating story brilliantly toldﾽ
Henry Steele Commager - Book Week
The most readable of all accounts of the Philadelphia convention. Miss Bowen has been successful beyond any of the general historiansﾽshe has brought to the retelling both imagination and art.
Allan Nebins - Book-of-the-Month-Club News
Our greatest peacetime story is here retold in terms that would delight the general reader while satisfying the critical scholar.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Many historians have written of this particular "miracle," but never has the tale been told more vividly than in this book by one of America's foremost biographers. — Virginia Kirkus
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