Includes a complete copy of the Constitution. Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. "The best popular history of the Constitutional Convention available."--Library Journal

In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct in-depth studies of the Negro community in Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. More than one hundred years afte...(展开全部)

Includes a complete copy of the Constitution. Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. "The best popular history of the Constitutional Convention available."--Library Journal From the Paperback edition.

This book is a history of the Federal Convention in Philadelphia that resulted in the Constitution of the United States.

凯瑟琳•德林克•鲍恩 美国著名传记女作家，代表作有: 《狮子与王冠》(获1958年美国国家图书奖)、富兰克林传记《美国最危险的人》、《约翰•亚当斯与美国革命》、《弗兰西斯•培根》等。