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Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
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Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention - Paperback

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by Mary Sarah Bilder (Author)

Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the James Bradford Best Biography Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Finalist, Literary Award for Nonfiction, Library of Virginia
Finalist, George Washington Prize

James Madison's Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have long been treated as the definitive account of the Constitution's creation. No other document offers a fuller record of the deliberations in Philadelphia or portrays the Convention's charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and hard-won compromises with such narrative force. But how reliable is this record?

In a groundbreaking study that combines digital tools with traditional textual analysis, Mary Sarah Bilder shows that Madison revised his Notes far more extensively than scholars had realized. Initially kept as a near-daily diary, the Notes were abandoned at a crucial point and left unfinished. Madison returned to them only years later, largely with Thomas Jefferson in mind as his audience--by which time his thinking had been reshaped by the new government's early struggles and Jefferson's political ideas. His evolving vision of republican government, his Virginia allegiances, his openness to constitutional protections for slavery, his interest in political maneuvering, and his portrayals of figures such as Alexander Hamilton and Charles Pinckney all shifted through successive rounds of revision. When the Notes were finally published in 1840, the layers of revision were invisible.

Madison's Hand uncovers the history of this influential manuscript and shows how a single, much-reworked document came to dominate our understanding of the Constitution's origins.
Number of Pages: 384
Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: August 21, 2017

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