A More Perfect Union

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s/t: The Making of the United States Constitution A narrative with all the drama of good fiction, this book is an accurate, day-by-day account of the pivotal event of American history--the 1787 Convention that drafted the Constitution. Transported to Philadelphia with 55 delegates from 12 states, the reader shares their 4-month struggle to create a new framework of government to preserve a shaky Union. Written with the immediacy of vivid reporting, the book reverberates with great speeches for & against principles that today form the bedrock of American government. From the sometimes angry debates of men whose characters & motivations are revealed thru their actual words & acts, readers will see the Constitution take form, vote by vote, clause by clause. The book also follows the delegates as they dine in Philadelphia's inns & taverns, meet to devise strategy, attend church or sample the pleasures of the country's largest city. Readers will be left with a new understanding of the nation's beginnings & the closest thing to a sense of having been there.--Publisher description.