Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780674089006
0674089006
9780674495500
0674495500
9780674055278
0674055276
9780674979741
0674979745
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-343) and index.
In English.
Online resource; title from digital title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed October 1, 2018).
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| Summary: | "New digital technologies and traditional historical investigation suggest that James Madison did not finish his famous Notes until after the Convention. The Notes are the most important, and most misunderstood, account of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. This biography of the Notes follows Madison as he created and then repeatedly revised a remarkable manuscript of American history. Originally a diary kept in part for the absent Thomas Jefferson, the Notes highlighted his fascination with the political strategy of drafting. But when the Convention began to draft the details of the Constitution, the complicated process led Madison to abandon his Notes. Only after serving in Congress and drafting new constitutional amendments did Madison return to complete them. By the time the Notes were published a half-century later, the layers of revisions made the Notes appear--inaccurately--to be an objective record of the writing of the Constitution"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Bilder, Mary Sarah. Madison's hand. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015 9780674055278
Print version: Druck-Ausgabe Bilder, Mary Sarah. Madison's hand. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015 viii, 358 Seiten
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| Standard no.: | 10.4159/9780674089006
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