THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1787
Extended Edition (Spring, 2017)
Suggested Supplemental Reading
I.
Convention Story: From Articles of Confederation through Ratification
Beeman, Richard: “Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution” (2009)
Berkin, Carol: “A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution” (2002)
Bowen, Catherine Drinker: “Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional
Convention, May to September 1787” (1966)
Cerami, Charles: “Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan
and the Revolution That Created the Constitution” (2005)
Klarman, Michael J. “The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution”
(2016)
Levy, Leonard W. and Mahoney, Dennis J. eds. “The Framing and Ratification of the
Constitution” (2003)
Stewart, David O. “The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution” (2007)
Van Doren, Carl: “The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the
Constitution of the United States” (1948)
II.
Delegates
Bilder, Mary Sarah: “Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention” (2015)
Brookhiser, Richard: “James Madison” (2011)
Cheney, Lynn: “James Madison: A Life Reconsidered” (2014)
Ellis, Joseph J. “The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789”
(2015)
Larson, Edward J. “The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States 1783-1789” (2014)
Meyerson, Michael I. “Liberty’s Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist
Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World” (2008)
Rakove, Jack: “Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America” (2010)
Signer, Michael: “Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely
Founding Father” (2015)
Stewart, David O. “Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America” (2015)