Book cover of Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder
Biography & Autobiography

Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention

James Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the U.S. Constitution’s creation. No document provides a more complete record of the deliberations in Philadelphia or depicts the Convention’s charismatic figures, crushing disappointments, and miraculous triumphs with such narrative force. But how reliable is this account? […Learn More]