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A child of fortune, a correspondent's report on the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the battle for a Bill of Rights, Jeffrey St. John ; [foreword by Warren E. Burger]

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A child of fortune

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Jeffrey St. John ; [foreword by Warren E. Burger]

a correspondent's report on the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the battle for a Bill of Rights

With his simulated day-by-day reportage, prize-winning journalist-historian Jeffrey St. John makes you an eyewitness to the 1787-1788 political battle to ratify the U.S. Constitution. And what a battle it was! Listeners will discover how the Federalists sought to stampede the states into early ratification with violence and rigged elections; how close some Anti-Federalists came to opposing the new Constitution with armed force; how the Bill of Rights was born as the price Federalists had to pay to save the new Constitution from certain defeat. Described here is Massachusetts Governor John Hancock's secret deal to deliver his state in return for support of his candidacy for the presidency, the Constitution's sanction of slavery and the delegate revolts it produced, Patrick Henry's challenge to a pistol duel at the Virginia convention, and how the soft-voiced James Madison defeated America's greatest orator

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