Woody Holton
Author
Pub. Date
©2021.
Physical Desc
779 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A celebrated scholar's history of the American Revolution, from its origins to its aftermath, which emphasizes the contributions of groups usually omitted in this story: Native Americans, African Americans, and women"--
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xi, 370 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution
Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate. The framers who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were determined to reverse America's post—Revolutionary War slide into democracy. They believed...