Author: Arthur Milnor BridgmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Souvenir of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
Author: Arthur Milnor BridgmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Souvenir of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
Author: Arthur Milnor BridgmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
John William McCormack
Author: Garrison NelsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1628925167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 929
Book Description
In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the past, almost erasing his legacy from the public's mind. John William McCormack: A Political Biography sheds light on the behind-the-curtain machinations of American politics and the origins of the modern-day Democratic party, facilitated through McCormack's triumphs. McCormack overcame desperate poverty and family tragedy in the Irish ghetto of South Boston to hold the second-most powerful position in the nation. By reinventing his family history to elude Irish Boston's powerful political gatekeepers, McCormack embarked on a 1928 - 1971 House career and from 1939-71, the longest house leadership career. Working with every president from Coolidge to Nixon, McCormack's social welfare agenda, which included Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, immigration reform, and civil rights legislation helped commit the nation to the welfare of its most vulnerable citizens. By helping create the Austin-Boston Connection, McCormack reshaped the Democratic Party from a regional southern white Protestant party to one that embraced urban religiously and racially diverse ethnics. A man free of prejudice, John McCormack was the Boston Brahmin's favorite Irishman, the South's favorite northerner, and known in Boston as "Rabbi John," the Jews' favorite Catholic.
The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
Author: Jonathan ElliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Miracle At Philadelphia
Author: Catherine Drinker BowenPublisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316103985
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents: the Constitution of the United States. From Catherine Drinker Bowen, noted American biographer and National Book Award winner, comes the canonical account of the Constitutional Convention recommended as "required reading for every American." Looked at straight from the records, the Federal Convention is startlingly fresh and new, and Mrs. Bowen evokes it as if the reader were actually there, mingling with the delegates, hearing their arguments, witnessing a dramatic moment in history. Here is the fascinating record of the hot, sultry summer months of debate and decision when ideas clashed and tempers flared. Here is the country as it was then, described by contemporaries, by Berkshire farmers in Massachusetts, by Patrick Henry's Kentucky allies, by French and English travelers. Here, too, are the offstage voices--Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine and John Adams from Europe. In all, fifty-five men attended; and in spite of the heat, in spite of clashing interests--the big states against the little, the slave states against the anti-slave states--in tension and anxiety that mounted week after week, they wrote out a working plan of government and put their signatures to it.
Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918
Author: Massachusetts. Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitution
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Decision in Philadelphia
Author: Christopher CollierPublisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 162064195X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. Decision in Philadelphia is the best popular history of the Constitutional Convention; in it, the life and times of eighteenth century America not only come alive, but the very human qualities of the men who framed the document are brought provocatively into focus—casting many of the Founding Fathers in a new light. A celebration of how and why our Constitution came into being, Decision in Philadelphia is also a testament of the American spirit at its finest.
Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1917
Author: Massachusetts. Constitutional ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitution
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Twentieth century Massachusetts, 1889-1930
Author: Albert Bushnell HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
A Brilliant Solution
Author: Carol BerkinPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156028721
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Revisiting all the original documents and using her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century history and politics, Carol Berkin takes a fresh look at the men who framed the Constitution, the issues they faced, and the times they lived in. Berkin transports the reader into the hearts and minds of the founders, exposing their fears and their limited expectations of success.