Includes a complete copy of the Constitution.Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time; told with humanity and humor. "The best popular history of the Constitutional Convention available."--Library JournalFrom the Paperback edition.
#599144 in Books Random House Trade Paperbacks 1982-08-12 1982-08-12Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.17 x .76 x 5.50l; .54 #File Name: 0345303636352 pagesGreat product!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Lessons Insights from a fine writer and historianBy REMLike most essay collections; there are those in "Practicing History" that don't interest an individual reader and some that they value. I found that the ones I learned from and; or enjoyed in this book definitely outnumbered the former. Ms. Tuchman's essays on the value of history to one who studies it and ones on the responsibilities of the historian are worth reading and rereading. The lessons she finds in her study of disastrous governmental and diplomatic blunders; often deliberate and self-serving; are valuable lessons; but I think her understandable anger about these blunders in Vietnam and WW II China are repeated too often in multiple essays. I must say that Ms. Tuchman; with her deep study of these fiascos and the understanding of the terrible consequences of them has every reason to be furious. I just got tired of reading about them. I recommend reading "Practicing History" ; "The Proud Tower"; and "Guns of August". Likely the rest after I read them myself.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy bierhausserEXCELLENT BOOK.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. But it is also for the good of all us readers out thereBy David J. CormierThis book is for writers. Writers of history and of biography. But it is also for the good of all us readers out there! Tuchman takes us through the rationale and methods of good writing; lest we fall into the trap of having complete works that cover all aspects of our topics yet bore the readers to tears. If only more history writers learned at her knee!
