Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787.

by Catherine Drinker Bowen

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1986

About the author

Catherine Drinker Bowen was born as Catherine Drinker on the Haverford College campus on January 1, 1897, to a prominent Quaker family. She was an accomplished violinist who studied for a musical career at the Peabody Institute and the Juilliard School of Music, but ultimately decided to become a writer. She had no formal writing education and no academic career, but became a bestselling American biographer and writer despite criticism from academics. Her earliest biographies were about musicians. Bowen did all her own research, without hiring research assistants, and sometimes took the controversial step of interviewing subjects without taking notes.

Reviews

[Jdetrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a well-researched and written look at the creation (and ratification) of the American constitution. What surprised me the most is how much the arguments used by the two sides continue to resonate today.