The Great Rehearsal: The story of the making and ratifying of the Constitution of the United States, by Van Doren, Carl
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The Great Rehearsal: The story of the making and ratifying of the Constitution of the United States, by Van Doren, Carl. Viking: New York, 1948. Edition: BOOK CLUB EDITION. Hardcover, 336 pages. Brownish cloth with gilt lettering over black background on spine; line drawing of quill pen on cover. Black and white illustrations.

Condition: Near Fine in Good jacket. Light bumping on spine ends; page edges show some graying from shelf dust. Jacket soiled and dhipped along upper and lower margins.

Contents: From the jacket

The great story of how the United States became a nation, known at first hand only to Washington and Madison, to Franklin and Hamilton, and to the others who shared their conclaves, has reposed only in a bare official record an in the scattered notes and diaries kept by a few of the conferees. These came out piecemeal over the following dozen decades and have never been made freely available except in scholarly publications.

An instructive and fascinating read, as we watch the fledgling governments in Afghanistan and Iraq struggle to formulate their constitutions.