A Child of Fortune , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 633min

With his simulated day-by-day reportage, prize-winning journalist-historian Jeffrey St. John makes you an eyewitness to the 1787-1788 political battle to ratify the U.S. Constitution. And what a battle it was! Listeners will discover how the Federalists sought to stamp the states into early ratification with violence and rigged elections; how close some Anti-Federalists came to opposing the new Constitution with armed force; how the Bill of Rights was born; and the price Federalists had to pay to save the new Constitution from certain defeat. Described here is Massachusetts Governor John Hancock´s secret deal to deliver his state in return for support of his candidacy for the presidency; the Constitution´s sanction of slavery and the delegate revolts it produced; Patrick Henry´s challenge to a pistol duel at the Virginia convention; and how the soft-voiced James Madison defeated America´s greatest orator. Vastly entertaining, based on documented and newly-available sources, this book is both a popular history and an important contribution to the study of the founding of the American Republic. U.S. Supreme Court former Chief Justice Warren Burger avers, ´´This book and its companion Constitutional Journal should be required reading to graduates from high school.´´ 1. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001384/bk_blak_001384_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.... Mehr