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  3. Notable general narratives of the Constitutional Convention include, in reverse chronological order, Richard Beeman, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (New York: Random House, 2009); David O. Stewart, The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007); Carol Berkin, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (New York: Harcourt, 2002); Thornton Anderson, Creating the Constitution: The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993); Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier, Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (New York: Reader’s Digest, 1986); Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention (Boston: Little, Brown, 1966); Clinton Rossiter, 1787: The Grand Convention (New York: Macmillan, 1966).

  4. Rossiter, 1787, 248; Jack Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), 76; Beeman, Plain, Honest Men, 252.

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Ray Raphael’s fifteen books include A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence (2001) and Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past (2004). He is also coeditor of Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation (2011). Having taught at Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods and all subjects in a one-room public high school, he is now a full-time researcher and writer. He lives in Northern California.