
A narrative history of the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787, written as a series of daily newspaper accounts by an "on-the-scene reporter." Foreword by Warren Burger, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.


You are there, in 1787, at America's constitutional convention, with the inside story that reads like a modern-day account of the secret proceedings in Philadelphia. Veteran print and broadcast journalist Jeffrey St. John "reports" each day's proceedings, flavoring his dispatches...